Surattha

Distinguished by combination of porrect, thickly scaled labial palps extending well beyond head; conical frons process; bipectinate male antennae with long branches; long tibial spurs with outer spurs two-thirds length of inner; forewing venation with veins 4 and 5 on long stalk, veins 6, 7, 10, and 11 free; hindwing with vein 5 absent and vein 7 anastomosing with vein 8. Separation from Prionapteryx requires examination of genitalic characters per Bassi & Mey (2011) revision.

Palpi porrect (extending forward), thickly scaled, and extending about one and a half times the length of the head. Maxillary palp triangularly scaled. Frons with a conical process. Male antennae bipectinate with long branches. Tibia with long spurs, outer spurs about two-thirds the length of inner spurs. Forewings long and narrow with rounded apex. Hindwings with vein 5 absent and vein 7 anastomosing (fusing) with vein 8.

Associated with grasslands; at least one species (S. indentella) has been documented on buffalograss (Bouteloua dactyloides).

Species distributed across Africa (including South Africa, Sudan), Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Japan), and North America (USA).

• Bouteloua dactyloides (buffalograss) - associationDocumented for S. indentella; nature of association (feeding, oviposition, etc.) not specified in available sources.

• PrionapteryxSurattha was synonymized with Prionapteryx by Błeszyński (1967) and later reinstated by Bassi & Mey (2011); separation requires detailed morphological examination including genitalic characters.

• Crambidae
• grass moth
• taxonomic revision
• synonymy reinstated

• BugGuide
• Wikipedia
• GBIF taxonomy match
• iNaturalist taxon
• Catalogue of Life
• Distribution of Surattha indentella Kearfott on Buffalograss12