''Surattha invectalis'' 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 w ...

in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in

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, Indonesia,

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, and

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Description

Its wingspan is about 22–30 mm in the male and 26–32 mm in the female. Forewings with veins 4 and 5 stalked. It is a greyish-ochreous moth and irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous. Forewings with indistinct pale waved antemedial line, with fuscous suffusion on the edges. There are similar, more distinct medial and postmedial lines, where the latter angled on vein 5, the former with dentate dark marks on its outer edge, with latter on its inner. A white spot beyond discocellulars. A marginal black specks series and a line through the cilia. Hindwings pale or dark fuscous, rarely pure white.

References

Ancylolomiini Moths described in 1863 Moths of Africa Moths of Asia {{Prionapterygini-stub