Eilema albicosta
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Eilema |
Species: | E. albicosta
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Binomial name | |
Eilema albicosta (Rogenhofer, 1894)
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Eilema albicosta is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1894. It is found in Spain and on the Canary Islands.[1]
Adults are on wing year round.
The larvae feed on algae, mosses, lichen and detritus.[2]
References
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- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ "Eilema albicosta (Rogenhofer, 1894)". Lepidoptera and their Ecology.