Pilocrocis musalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Pilocrocis
- Species
- Pilocrocis musalis
- Scientific Name
- Pilocrocis musalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pilocrocis musalis
Pilocrocis musalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Schaus in 1912. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama.
The wingspan is about 30 mm. The forewings are brown, tinged with purplish. The costal margin is fuscous and there are four semi-hyaline whitish spots beyond the cell from veins 3-7, as well as a small spot in the cell, all are rather indistinct. The hindwings are silky brown, thinly scaled near the cell, between veins 2 and 4 and above 5.
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Sibling Taxa
- Pilocrocis acutangula
- Pilocrocis anigrusalis
- Pilocrocis barcalis
- Pilocrocis calamistis
- Pilocrocis cryptalis
- Pilocrocis cuprealis
- Pilocrocis cyrisalis
- Pilocrocis deltalis
- Pilocrocis dichochrosialis
- Pilocrocis dichocrosialis
- Pilocrocis fanovalis
- Pilocrocis fulvicolor
- Pilocrocis fumidalis
- Pilocrocis gillipusalis
- Pilocrocis glaucitalis
- Pilocrocis guianalis
- Pilocrocis hesperialis
- Pilocrocis hypoleucalis
- Pilocrocis italavalis
- Pilocrocis janinalis
- Pilocrocis laralis
- Pilocrocis melastictalis
- Pilocrocis metachrysias
- Pilocrocis milvinalis
- Pilocrocis modestalis
- Pilocrocis monothyralis
- Pilocrocis musalis
- Pilocrocis nubilinea
- Pilocrocis patagialis
- Pilocrocis phaeocoryla
- Pilocrocis pterygodia
- Pilocrocis purpurascens
- Pilocrocis ramentalis
- Pilocrocis rectilinealis
- Pilocrocis reniferalis
- Pilocrocis roxonalis
- Pilocrocis sororalis
- Pilocrocis stephanorma
- Pilocrocis xanthostictalis
- Pilocrocis xanthozonalis