''Addyme aspiciella'' is a
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...
of the family
Pyralidae
The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyra ...
first described by
Émile Louis Ragonot
Émile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843 – 13 October 1895) was a French entomologist. In 1885, he became president of the '' Société entomologique de France''.
He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly pyralid moths.
He is al ...
in 1889. It is found in
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, à·à·Šà¶»à·“ ලංකà·, ÅšrÄ« Laá¹…kÄ, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலஙà¯à®•ை, Ilaá¹…kai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
References
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1889
Phycitini
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