Podalia walkeri: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Megalopygidae
- Genus
- Podalia
- Species
- Podalia walkeri
- Scientific Name
- Podalia walkeri
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Podalia walkeri
Podalia walkeri is a moth of the Megalopygidae family. It was described by Carlos Berg in 1882 and is found in Brazil.
The wingspan is 45 mm. The forewings have the basal half brown except the costa which is white with a few long brown streaks. There is a dark brown spot at the end of the cell and the outer half of the wing is brown with the veins whitish and two transverse white lines breaking the brown up into irregular spots. There are also some white longitudinal streaks between the veins on the outer margin. The hindwings are brown, but white at the base of the costal margin. There are some whitish spots on the fringe.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Podalia albescens
- Podalia amarga
- Podalia angulata
- Podalia annulipes
- Podalia bolivari
- Podalia cincinnata
- Podalia contigua
- Podalia dimidiata
- Podalia dyari
- Podalia expansa
- Podalia farmbri
- Podalia fuscescens
- Podalia gamelia
- Podalia guaya
- Podalia habitus
- Podalia intermaculata
- Podalia lanocrispa
- Podalia major
- Podalia mallas
- Podalia marmorata
- Podalia misantla
- Podalia montana
- Podalia nigricostata
- Podalia nivosa
- Podalia orsilochus
- Podalia pedacia
- Podalia pedaciodes
- Podalia proiecta
- Podalia prosper
- Podalia pseudopedacia
- Podalia schadei
- Podalia semialba
- Podalia thanatos
- Podalia tympania
- Podalia walkeri



























































































