Podalia mallas

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Podalia mallas
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Megalopygidae
Genus: Podalia
Species:
P. mallas
Binomial name
Podalia mallas
(H. Druce, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Megalopyge mallasH. Druce, 1899
  • Bedalia coropsDyar, 1910

Podalia mallas is a moth of the family Megalopygidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1899. [1] It is found in Brazil.

The wingspan is about 30 mm. The wings are light brown, the forewings woolly toward the base and the costa shaded with white to across the cell and an outer straight white line across the wing. The veins are narrowly dark with two dark-brown spots at the extreme base of the wing. The hindwings are without marks. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Podalia mallas". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Notes on Megalopygidae". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. With a description of Bedalia corops.


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