''Tatobotys albivenalis'' 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 1897. It is found in Japan's

Ogasawara Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...

. 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 28 mm. Adults are fuscous, the forewings with whitish veins and a dark sinuous antemedial line defined by whitish on the inner edge and interrupted by the veins. There is a pale streak beyond it below the cell, as well as a pale streak in the cell and a speck in the end of the cell. There is also a discoidal lunule and a dark postmedial line, defined by whitish on the outer side and interrupted by the veins. It is excurved below the costa, then nearly straight to vein 2, where it is retracted to below the end of the cell. The hindwings have a dark postmedial line, slightly defined by whitish and excurved between veins 5 and 2, the retracted to the lower angle of the cell, the veins beyond which are whitish.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1897: 197

References

Moths described in 1897 Spilomelinae {{Steniini-stub