Sphalerostola argobela

Sphalerostola argobela
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Genus: Sphalerostola
Species: S. argobela
Binomial name
Sphalerostola argobela
Meyrick, 1931

Sphalerostola argobela is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1931. It is found in 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 half 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 white in its lower portion. There is also a white terminal line. The hindwings are ochreous-yellow.[2]

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