Calamotropha melanosticta

Calamotropha melanosticta is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1896. It is found in Sri Lanka.^[1]

Calamotropha melanosticta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Subfamily:	Crambinae
Tribe:	Calamotrophini
Genus:	Calamotropha
Species:	C. melanosticta
Binomial name
Calamotropha melanosticta (Hampson, 1896)
Synonyms
Crambus melanosticta Hampson, 1896

Description

Its wingspan is 16–20 mm. The palpi are white at their tips. The forewings have two oblique medial-costal brown striga continued as a single medial line angled below costa, with a black spot on it at vein 2. The submarginal line brown, further from margin, double from the costa to its angle at vein 6 and incurved at vein 2. A slight brown marginal line present along with silvery cilia.^[2]