Phyllalia flavicostata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Eupterotidae |
Genus: | Phyllalia |
Species: | P. flavicostata
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Binomial name | |
Phyllalia flavicostata Fawcett, 1903
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Phyllalia flavicostata is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by James Farish Malcolm Fawcett in 1903.[1] It is found in South Africa.[2]
The wings are a pale cream colour, 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 a 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]