Phiala polita

Phiala polita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Phiala
Species: P. polita
Binomial name
Phiala polita
Distant, 1897

Phiala polita is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by Distant in 1897.[1] It is found in South Africa (Mpumalanga).[2]

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.[3]

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