''Samea antisema'' 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 ...

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 ...

. It was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...

in 1886. It is found on

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...

. The

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is about 16 mm. The forewings are whitish, slightly ochreous tinged and with a dark fuscous fascia near the base, which is dilated towards the costa into a quadrate spot. The first line is irregular, dark fuscous and runs from before one-fourth of the costa to beyond one-third of the inner margin. It is dilated on the costa and bordering by a moderate dark fuscous quadrate spot beneath the costa. There is a smaller transverse dark fuscous discal spot in the middle, its lower edge connected with the first line near the inner margin by an irregular line. The space between this and the second line is fuscous except towards the costa. The second line is dark fuscous and there is an indistinct fuscous suffusion before the apex, as well as a fuscous hindmarginal line. The hindwings are white with a moderately broad blackish fuscous median band and a fuscous hindmarginal line."Descriptions of Lepidoptera from the South Pacific"

References

Spilomelinae Moths described in 1886 {{Nomophilini-stub