Hyalostola

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Hyalostola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Drepanidae
Subfamily:
Drepaninae
Genus:
Hyalostola

Hampson, 1914
Species:
H. phoenicochyta
Binomial name
Hyalostola phoenicochyta
Hampson, 1914

Hyalostola is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the subfamily Drepaninae first described by George Hampson in 1914. [1] Its only species, Hyalostola phoenicochyta, described by the same author in the same year, is found on Borneo. [2]

The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are semi-hyaline white, irrorated (sprinkled) with rufous scales and tinged with purplish crimson to beyond the middle. There are traces of rufous postmedial line, oblique to vein 4 and then incurved. There are some rufous marks before the termen. The hindwings are semi-hyaline white, tinged with purplish crimson, and irrorated with some rufous scales. There are some diffused rufous marks on the termen. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hyalostola". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Hyalostola Hampson, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 14: 107


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