Elophila ealensis, Published, 2012

Agassiz, David J. L., 2012, The Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) of Africa, Zootaxa 3494, pp. 1-73 : 19

Elophila ealensis sp. n.

Imago (Fig. 15): Wingspan 14mm. Head white mixed fuscous; labial palpus short, white with fuscous tuft beneath; antenna indistinctly ringed whitish and pale fuscous. Thorax mixed white and fuscous. Forewing with ground colour white, markings fuscous; an indistinct dark fuscous subbasal fascia; a narrow curved white fascia; a broad suffused fuscous band, a further white curved median fascia outwardly edged fuscous; markings in outer half of wing indistinct; a lunule above disc and a broad brown subterminal band; costa dark fuscous before apex; two small indistinct brownish triangles in upper half of termen. Hindwing basally white; an irregular waisted dark fuscous median fascia, edged on both sides white; a broad fuscous band before whitish termen with a fine double line along cilia.

Male genitalia: Unknown.

Female genitalia (Fig. 145): Ostium broad; ductus evenly tapered to colliculum; corpus bursae comprised of a small ovate sack and a larger one of weaker membrane, both without signa.

Tympanal organs: Venulae absent.

Diagnosis: Distinguished from E. africalis by the strong median fascia of the hindwing; in the female genitalia by the large diverticulum.

Derivation: From the type locality, this was a manuscript name already chosen by Ghesquière.

Biology: Unknown.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality Eala, Tshuapa Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Material examined: Holotype ♀, Eala | Tshuapa Prov. | Congo | latitude N 00° 04´, longitude E 18° 17´|DJLA slide 3002 ( RMCA).