Sphalerostola argobela
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Arthropoda
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Class: | Insecta
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Species: | S. argobela
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Sphalerostola argobela Meyrick, 1931
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Sphalerostola argobela is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found on New Guinea.[1]
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are red brown and whitish speckled with a fusiform white costal patch extending from the base almost to the apex, widest in the middle, where it reaches rather more than halfway across the wing, edged beneath by a dark red-brown streak almost from the base terminating in the apex, and sending a similar branch from the lower angle of the cell to the tornus, mixed with white in its lower portion. There is also a white terminal line. The hindwings are ochreous yellow.[2]
References[]
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 1, 2016). "Sphalerostola argobela Meyrick, 1931". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (2-4): 45.
Categories:
- Xyloryctidae
- Moths described in 1931
- Xyloryctidae stubs