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Phiala polita

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Eupterotidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Phiala

Phiala polita is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by Distant in 1897. It is found in South Africa (Mpumalanga).

The wingspan is 40 mm. The wings are pale bright ochraceous, the forewings speckled with black obliquely beneath the cell, near the centre of the inner margin and near posterior the half of the outer margin. The hindwings have two or three speckles near the outer margin.

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Phiala polita Wikipedia


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