Knowledge About Spot Light
Metasia familiaris is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1884. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Tasmania.
The wingspan is 1516mm. The forewings are light ochreous brownish, the costa somewhat darker. There is a very small blackish spot on the costa at four-fifths and sometimes some scattered dark fuscous scales forming an ill-defined line from this to two-thirds of the inner margin. There are also some obscure dark fuscous hindmarginal dots. The hindwings are light ochreous, irregularly suffused with grey and with a faint darker line as in the forewings. The hind marginal dots are as in the forewings.
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Lethata psidii of spot lightLethata psidii is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in the Guianas and Venezuela.
The wingspan is 2426mm. The forewings are light brown, with a few scattered black scales and with the costal edge dull pinkish. There are three cloudy fuscous transverse lines, the first at one-fourth, obtusely angulated on the fold, dilated on the dorsum, the second in the middle, forming a small spot on the costa, strongly curved outwards in the disc, the third from a larger cloudy spot on the costa at three-fourths to the dorsum before the tornus, moderately curved. The second discal stigma forms a conspicuous small round blackish spot and there is a marginal series of dark fuscous dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are grey.
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Melitoxoides leucodoxa of spot lightMelitoxoides leucodoxa is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1920. It is found in South Africa.
The wingspan is 1415mm. The forewings are light grey, more or less wholly overlaid with ochreous white and with blackish markings. There is a rather broad basal fascia, the outer edge obtusely angulated below the middle and a moderate irregular-edged slightly oblique fascia at two-fifths, not reaching the dorsum. A rather broad transverse fascia is found at two-thirds with an anterior projection above the middle, and containing an irregular white spot in the disc sometimes extending to the posterior edge. There is also an irregular apical spot. The hindwings are whitish grey.
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Lethata gypsolitha of spot lightLethata gypsolitha is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Paraguay and northern Argentina.
The wingspan is about 23mm. The forewings are light ochreous brown, with a few scattered dark grey specks. The costal edge is light dull rosy, with some slight fuscous suffusion beneath this from the base to beyond the middle and a faintly infuscated hardly defined shade from the dorsum at one-fourth to the costa before the middle. The second discal stigma forms a small oval grey-whitish spot, edged with light fuscous. There is also a slight oblique light fuscous mark from the costa at two-thirds. The hindwings are pale greyish, with the apex slightly tinged with whitish ochreous.
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Stenoma frondifer of spot lightStenoma frondifer is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by August Busck in 1914. It is found in Panama.
The wingspan is about 18mm. The forewings are dark brownish fuscous with a greenish tint and strongly mottled with transverse, black striations. At the end of the cell lies a large oblong leafgreen spot which is connected by a narrow neck with another similar, but perpendicular, oval spot at the tornus. Below the first of these spots is a small, pure, white dot as in Antaeotricha virens. The hindwings are light fuscous and unicolored.
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Bellulia postea of spot lightBellulia postea is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2010. It is known from northern Vietnam.
The wingspan is about 13mm. The forewing is light brown. The crosslines are all present and blackish. The antemedial, upper half of subterminal line and terminal line are well marked. The hindwing is greyish brown, with a discal spot and the underside is unicolorous grey.
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Comocritis olympia of spot lightComocritis olympia is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1894. It is found in Myanmar and Assam, India.
The wingspan is about 30mm (1.2in). The forewings are rather light ochreous grey, densely mixed with blackish grey and with a white basal fascia, as well as a broad white costal streak throughout, suddenly narrowed near the base, the lower edge cloudy and shaded off with blue whitish, interrupted by a light ochreous spot on the costa at two-thirds. There is a longitudinal yellow-ochreous patch, marked with blackish lines on the veins, extending through the lower part of the disc from near the base to three-fourths. A crescentic white spot is found in the disc at two-thirds, and a second, slightly ochreous tinged, at five-sixths. There is also a triangular white spot on the anal angle. The hindwings are grey, with the apex white.
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Athrips bidilatata of spot lightAthrips bidilatata is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in China (Gansu).
The wingspan is about 11.5mm. The forewings are greyish white mottled with numerous black scales. There are two dark spots at the base, three black spots in the middle and two indistinct dark spots at about three-quarters. The hindwings are light grey. Adults are on wing in September and from February to May.
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Dyspessa cerberus of spot lightDyspessa cerberus is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Franz Daniel in 1939. It is found in Turkey and Syria.
The length of the forewings is 810mm. The forewings are light brown with broad light spots and stripes. The hindwings are light brown.
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Scrobipalpa ocyphanes of spot lightScrobipalpa ocyphanes is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1937. It is found in South Africa.
The wingspan is about 16mm (0.63in). The forewings are light fuscous, the costa narrowly ochreous yellow, interrupted by a small dark fuscous spot at two-thirds, the costal edge blackish towards the base. The plical and second discal stigma are dark fuscous and the dorsal edge is dark fuscous on the basal one-fourth. The hindwings are grey.
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Thiotricha niphastis of spot lightThiotricha niphastis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Western Australia.
The wingspan is about 11mm (0.43in). The forewings are shining whitish, sprinkled with fuscous and a triangular fuscous spot on the base of the costa. The anterior half of the dorsum is suffused with pale grey. There is an irregular fuscous spot in the disc at one-fourth, one beneath the middle of the disc, one on tornus, and one on costa at two-thirds. There is some irregular fuscous marking towards the apex and a blackish apical dot. The hindwings are light grey.
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Thyrocopa kokeensis of spot lightThyrocopa kokeensis is a moth of the family Xyloryctidae. It was first described by Matthew J. Medeiros in 2009. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
The length of the forewings is 89mm. Adults are on wing at least from July to October. The ground color of the forewings is mottled very light whitish gray or whitish brown and gray or brown. The discal area is clouded with several poorly defined blackish spots in the cell. There are rather dark, evenly spaced spots on the distal half of the costa and along the termen at the vein ending. The anal and sometimes costal margin of the wing are often darker than the discal area and the termen. The hindwings are light brown, darker near apex. The fringe is very light brown.
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Ampittia nanus of spot lightAmpittia nanus is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by John Henry Leech in 1890. It is found in China. One of the two marginal rows of spots of the forewing in cellules 5, 6 and 7, or 6, 7 and 8, the other in cellule 2 and 3: no light spot in cellule 4. A spot in the cell near the upper angle ash colour
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Taiwani bialbipuncta of spot lightTaiwani bialbipuncta is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Michael Fibiger in 2008. It is known from Taiwan and eastern China.
Adults have been found in April, June and September. There are probably several generations per year.
The wingspan is 1216mm. The forewing is relatively narrow and yellowish and the reniform stigma is hardly traceable. The crosslines are mostly absent, except for the terminal line, which is marked by small black interveinal spots. The antemedian and postmedian lines are marked only at the costa. The hindwing is light greyish brown with an indistinct discal spot. The underside of the upper forewing is part brownish, but otherwise grey brown and without a pattern. The underside of the upper hindwing is part brownish, but the lower part is light grey, with a discal spot
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Platyedra erebodoxa of spot lightPlatyedra erebodoxa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1927. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kasai-Occidental, Maniema) and Cameroon.
The wingspan is 1719mm. The forewings are light brownish ochreous irregularly mixed with dark fuscous and with a dark bluish-fuscous spot on the base of the costa. The dorsum is narrowly suffused with dark fuscous and there is a suffused dark fuscous transverse fascia before the middle. The posterior two-fifths is wholly dark fuscous except a pale brownish-ochreous spot on the costa at four-fifths and a dot on the tornus opposite. The hindwings are grey.
The larvae feed on Hibiscus diversifolius and Dombeya emarginata.
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Chariphylla of spot lightChariphylla is a monotypic moth genus in the family Depressariidae. Its only species, Chariphylla closterias, is found in Peru. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1921.
The wingspan is 22mm. The forewings brown slightly rosy tinged, suffusedly sprinkled with dark fuscous with the costal edge dark fuscous towards the base and with a narrow white costal streak from one-sixth to three-fourths and a white spot on the dorsum near the base, where a sinuate white subdorsal line, furcate (forked) anteriorly and connected with both ends of it, runs to the dorsum at two-thirds. There is a curved white line from above the fold at one-third of the wing to the dorsum at four-fifths, connected on the dorsum with the preceding, some white irroration (sprinkles) between them posteriorly and with some scattered white scales towards the costa. The hindwings are light grey, sprinkled darker on the veins and terminally.
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Harmonia conformis of spot lightHarmonia conformis (the large spotted ladybird) is a species of ladybird (the family Coccinellidae). It has a light reddish appearance and its colouration includes 20 large black spots, 18 of which are found on the elytra (wing covers). They are quite large for ladybirds, being about 67mm long. It is a predator of other insects, eating aphids as both a larva and imago (adult). It is found in Australia, and has been introduced to New Zealand, where it is common in northern regions. Another member of the same genus, Harmonia antipoda, also occurs in New Zealand. This species, however, is a native and is much smaller and harder to find
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Prodoxus pallidus of spot lightProdoxus pallidus is a moth of the family Prodoxidae. It is found in southern California, United States. The habitat consists of shrubby desert.
The wingspan is 1725mm. The forewings are near white to light gray, with scattered dark brown spots and streaks. The hindwings are medium to dark brown.
The larvae feed on Agave species.
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Chlamydastis platyspora of spot lightChlamydastis platyspora is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932. It is found in Brazil.
The wingspan is about 48mm. The forewings are white, thinly sprinkled with dark fuscous, more closely on the dorsal half anteriorly. There is a short very oblique ill-defined dark fuscous streak from the costa at one-fifth, a similar less-developed streak from before the middle of the costa to the disc beyond the cell, its extremity curved, and a small spot on the costa at three-fourths. There are two small dark fuscous spots transversely placed on the end of the cell. The hindwings are rather light grey.
The larvae feed on Roupala montana.
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