Phostria leucophasma

Phostria leucophasma
Scientific classification
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 moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Dyar in 1912. It is found in Mexico and Peru.[1]

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 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.[2]

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