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Monotypic moth genus in family Drepanidae

Hyalostola
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Domain: Eukaryota
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. Its only species, Hyalostola phoenicochyta, described by the same author in the same year, is found on Borneo.

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.

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 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Hyalostola


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