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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