Phostria obscurata — The Life Data

Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Crambidae/Phostria

At a glance

Occurrence records0

Data sources5

Biological traits0

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections0

Sources5 archives

Databases and archives Phostria obscurata's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page2 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

01Narrative

Phostria obscurata is a moth of the family Crambidae described by Frederic Moore in 1885. It is found in Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Myanmar.Shibuya, J., 1928. (1)_p1-300.pdf "The Systematic Study on the Formosan Pyralidae". Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University. January 1928; 22(1): 1-300. Adults are purplish brown. The forewings have an extremely indistinct blackish transverse outwardly curved narrow antemedial band, and an irregular postmedial band. There is a spot in the middle of the cell, and a streak at the end. The hindwings have a similar irregular discal band.The Lepidoptera of Ceylon

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding2 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Phostria obscurata has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

BINs1

Marker genes1

Countries2

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

COI-5P

animal barcode