''Syngamia albiceps'' 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

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

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. The

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

is about 22 mm. The forewings are cupreous brown, the inner half pale yellow from before the antemedial line to the postmedial line confluent with a patch beyond the lower angle of the cell. There is a curved blackish antemedial line, a slight black discoidal lunule with a small white spot before it and a blackish postmedial line, defined on the outer side by white towards the costa, where it expands into a small spot with some white before and beyond it. It is minutely waved, at vein 2 retracted to below the end of the cell and then slightly angled outwards in the submedian fold. The hindwings are pale yellow, the terminal area broadly tinged with cupreous brown and with a blackish discoidal striga. The postmedial line is blackish, bent inwards at vein 2 to below the end of the cell and then oblique to the inner margin.''The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology''

References

Moths described in 1912 Spilomelinae {{Nomophilini-stub