Hyalostola

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]

References[]

^ 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.
^ Savela, Markku. "Hyalostola Hampson, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
^ Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 14: 107

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[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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