Emphylica
| Emphylica | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Emphylica Turner, 1913[1] |
| Species: | E. xanthocrossa |
| Binomial name | |
| Emphylica xanthocrossa Turner, 1913 | |
Emphylica is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family. It contains only one species, Emphylica xanthocrossa, which is found in found in Australia, where it has been recorded from the Northern Territory.
The wingspan is 14 mm. The forewings are purple-reddish with a large triangular orange spot on the costa beyond the middle. The hindwings are whitish ochreous with a broad pale-fuscous terminal band and the terminal edge is orange, except towards the tornus.[2]
References
- ↑ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ↑ Queensland, Royal Society Of. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 1909. Vol. 22. 1909
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