''Phryganodes biguttata'' is a species of

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 ...

in the family

Crambidae The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies includ ...

that is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and Sierra Leone. The species was first 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 1899.

References

*Hampson, G. F. (1899)
"A revision of the moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae and family Pyralidae, part 1"
''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London''. 1898(4):715, pl. 49 (XLIX)–fig.12. Spilomelinae Insects of Cameroon Moths of Africa Insects of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Insects of West Africa Moths described in 1899 {{Agroterini-stub