Emphylica

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Emphylica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Pyraustinae
Genus: Emphylica
Turner, 1913 [1]
Species:
E. xanthocrossa
Binomial name
Emphylica xanthocrossa
Turner, 1913

Emphylica is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1913. It contains only one species, Emphylica xanthocrossa, described in the same article, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from the Northern Territory.

The wingspan is 14 mm. The forewings are purple reddish with a large triangular orange spot on the costa beyond the middle. The hindwings are whitish ochreous with a broad pale-fuscous terminal band and the terminal edge is orange, except towards the tornus. [2]

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References

  1. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2017). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  2. Turner, A. Jefferis (1913). "Studies in Australian Lepidoptera, Pyralidae". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 24: 159 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .