''Sufetula cyanolepis'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

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

. 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 1912. It is found in

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(

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). The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is about 14 mm. The forewings are ochreous largely suffused with red-brown and fuscous, and with scattered patches of silvery-blue scales. The base and the costal area to the antemedial line are blackish and the antemedial line is ochreous, defined on each side by blackish and with silvery-blue scales on its outer edges. There are two minute semicircular marks defined by black on the medial part of the costa and there is a diffused blackish discoidal annulus. The postmedial line is ochreous defined on each side by blackish and with silvery-blue scales on its inner edge. There are some minute silvery-blue streaks before the termen and there is a dark terminal line. The hindwings are ochreous with a diffused oblique medial black-brown band from the cell to the inner margin, as well as an ochreous postmedial line, which is obsolete on the costal area and then defined on the inner side by a black line and with a broad diffused blackish band on the outer area. There is a subterminal series of diffused black striae with slight patches of silvery-blue scales before termen on the costal half.''The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology''

References

Moths described in 1912 Spilomelinae {{Spilomelinae-stub Taxa named by George Hampson