Eoophyla excentrica Mey & Speidel, 1999

Agassiz, David J. L., 2012, The Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) of Africa, Zootaxa 3494, pp. 1-73 : 32-33

Eoophyla excentrica Mey & Speidel, 1999

Eoophyla excentrica Mey & Speidel, 1999: 263 .

Type locality: Yemen: Bajil , Khamis Bani Sa’d.

Imago (Fig. 51): Wingspan 15–22mm. Head pale ochreous; labial palpus segment 2 with long whitish hairs beneath, segment 3 very short; antenna 2/3 length of forewing, dull ochreous, male with a projection pointing upwards near base. Thorax pale ochreous. Forewing ground colour whitish, costa suffused brown in basal half; a broad yellow arc from dorsum before middle towards tornus enclosing a silver grey dorsal wedge; an elongate dark fuscous discal spot, yellow costal strigulae beyond, outwardly edged with brown suffusion; termen yellow with broken black subterminal and terminal lines; a pale silver grey tornal spot; terminal cilia pale fuscous. Hindwing base whitish with a diffuse brown spot; a broad yellow central band, outwardly suffused brown; four black eyespots each with a silver dash on the inner side; a silver grey tornal spot before yellow apex; cilia pale fuscous but blackish adjacent to eye-spots.

Male genitalia (Fig. 111): Uncus digitate; gnathos 4/5 length of uncus, tapered with small thorns near apex; valva simple, widest at about ¾ of its length, two specialised setae arising near apex, one broad and flat about half length of valva, the other narrow and about one third length of valva; aedeagus cylindrical, sclerotised ridges towards tip. Sternum 8 with a sclerotised plate which is gently emarginate centrally.

Female genitalia (Fig. 163): Ostium small, antrum narrow to a sclerotised colliculum; ductus long gradually widening into ovate corpus of about the same length, signa comprising a pair of small sclerotised ridges near ductus and a pair of long broad spiculate patches along most of length of corpus bursae.

Tympanal organs: Venulae obsolescent; tympani almost circular.

Diagnosis: Distinguished by the coloration of the hindwing inside the terminal eyespots, which is yellow becoming greyish, followed by white before the eyespots.

Biology: Unknown, occurs in rivers, probably continuously brooded, adults recorded in ii, iv, v, vii, viii, xi, xii.

Distribution: The Rift Valley —Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania; Yemen, Saudi Arabia.

Material examined: Holotype and 50 paratypes from Yemen as listed by Mey & Speidel (1999).

ETHIOPIA: 1♀ Addis Ababa, 1♀ Bahr-Dar ( MNHNP), 1♀ Lake Tana , Bahr-Dar ( MNHB); UGANDA: 1♀ Bujagali Falls , Jinja, 1♀ Entebbe , 1♀ Kampala ( BMNH), 6♂ 14♀ Bujagali Falls , 3♀ Murchison Falls ( DJLA); KENYA: 62♀ 1♂ Lake Turkana 2♂ Lake Baringo ( NMK), 1♂ 2♀ Lake Turkana, 2♀ Lake Baringo, 1♂ 1♀ Lake Bogoria , 1♀ Marich Pass ( DJLA), 1♀ Laikipia ( USNM), 1♀ Kibwezi Forest ( NMK); TANZANIA: 3♀ Kiwanda ( ZMUC), 3♀ Badengrossen : Panganu Falls ( MNHB), 1♀ Mwanza ( NMK).