Podalia dimidiata

Podalia dimidiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Megalopygidae
Genus: Podalia
Species: P. dimidiata
Binomial name
Podalia dimidiata
Synonyms
  • Limacodes dimidiata Herrich-Schäffer, 1856
  • Cyclara amarga Schaus, 1905
  • Megalopyge nigrescens Schaus, 1904

Podalia dimidiata is a moth of the Megalopygidae family. It was described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1856. It is found in French Guiana, Brazil and Guyana.[1]

The wingspan is 22 mm. The forewings are brownish black with the apex broadly and the outer margin narrowly light greyish buff. There is a postmedial whitish line, oblique from costa at two-thirds from the base to vein 5, then deeply dentate to vein 2, and wavy to the inner margin. Separating the dark and light portions is a marginal row of triangular blackish spots, preceded at vein 7 by another spot. The hindwings are smoky black, becoming paler on the outer margin.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Podalia dimidiata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ Description of Cyclara amarga in Proceedings of the United States National Museum


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