A new Moth Borer of Sugar-cane in Argentina (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

♂. Palpus light buff. Antennal shaft honey-yellow with sparse light buff scales. Head and thorax light buff tinged with warm buff. Tergum cartridge-buff, proximal two segments warm buff; pectus cartridge-buff. Legs light buff. Venter light buff. Fore wing light buff tinged with warm buff; veins slightly infuscate; a fuscous black discocellular dot; two series of fuscous dots on the veins beyond the cell, the first deeply bowed (concavity basad) from vein 7 to vein 2, sometimes forming a fuscous line continuing beyond vein 2 and bending to run obliquely into inner margin just before middle; the second series less deeply bowed, from vein 8 to vein 2; a terminal series of interneural black dots. Hind wing whitish, slightly tinged with cartridge-buff, tinged with light buff along costa; faint traces of fuscous interneural terminal dots. Underside of fore-wing light buff tinged along costa and sometimes beyond cell with warm buff; of hind wing whitish tinged with cartridge-buff, costa suffused with light buff. Expanse 30 mm.