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Phostria leucophasma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Genus:	Phostria
Species:	P. leucophasma
Binomial name
Phostria leucophasma (Dyar, 1912)
Synonyms
Phryganodes leucophasma Dyar, 1912 Pilocrocis leucochasma Strand, 1922 Pilocrocis huancabambae Strand, 1922

Phostria leucophasma is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1912. It is found in Mexico and Peru.

Description

The wingspan is about 30 mm. The wings are tan brown, with white subhyaline spaces. There is a speck near the base of the cell and a larger one below, as well as a round spot in the end of the cell, a pyriform (pear-shaped) one below it from which extend five spots to the costa, the three below small and dislocated by a blackish cloud, the two upper larger, quadrate and fused. The hindwings have two spots touching at their angles, the one on the inner margin running into the cell, the discal one farther out and running upward toward the costa.

References

1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
2. Descriptions of new species and genera of Lepidoptera, chiefly from Mexico This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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