Eilema albicosta

Eilema albicosta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Eilema
Species:
E. albicosta
Binomial name
Eilema albicosta
(Rogenhofer, 1894)
Synonyms
  • Lithosia albicosta Rogenhofer, 1894

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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  1. ^ Fauna Europaea
  2. ^ "Eilema albicosta (Rogenhofer, 1894)". Lepidoptera and their Ecology.


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