Phyllalia flavicostata

Phyllalia flavicostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Phyllalia
Species: P. flavicostata
Binomial name
Phyllalia flavicostata
Fawcett, 1903

Phyllalia flavicostata is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by Fawcett in 1903.[1] It is found in South Africa.[2]

The wings are pale cream-coloured, with a fulvous fascia on the costa, clothed with thick fulvous hairs, broad at the base, narrowing to a point at the apex. There is a thin marginal fulvous line.

The larvae feed on Ehrharta calycina. They have s velvety black body, with subdorsal, lateral, and spiracular greyish-white tubercles, bearing tufts of thick fulvous hairs of moderate length with a few longer hairs among them. The head is red.[3]

References

  1. ↑ LepIndex
  2. ↑ Afro Moths
  3. ↑ Fawcett, J. M. 1903. Notes on the Transformations of some South-African Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the zoological Society of London 17(2); pp. 173–174
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