''Arouva castanealis'' is a species of
snout moth
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 Pyralid ...
in the genus ''
Arouva
''Arouva'' is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Francis Walker in 1864.
Species
* '' Arouva albivitta'' (C. Felder, R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
* '' Arouva castanealis'' Hampson, 1906
* '' Arouva mirificana'' Walker, 1864
Reference ...
''. It was described by
George Hampson
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist.
Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills ...
in 1906 and is known from
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...
.
References
Moths described in 1906
Chrysauginae
Moths of the Caribbean
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