Mustilia fusca
Mustilia fusca is a moth in the family Endromidae first described by Yasunori Kishida in 1993. It is found in Taiwan.[1][2]
| Mustilia fusca | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Endromidae |
| Genus: | Mustilia |
| Species: | M. fusca |
| Binomial name | |
| Mustilia fusca Kishida, 1993 | |
The larvae feed on the leaves of Trochodendron aralioides. They have a greenish-brown body and head. They reach a length of 45 mm when full grown.[3][4] Pupation takes place in a black, rough and rugose (wrinkled) pupa, enclosed in a thin cocoon of brown silk spun among the leaves of the host plant.
References
- Wu, Shipher (June 6, 2017). "Smerkata fusca (Kishida, 1993) 赭樺蛾(赭蠶蛾)". Catalogue of Life in Taiwan (in Chinese). Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Kishida, Yasunori (1993). "A new species of Mustilia Walker (Bombycidae) from Taiwan". Japan Heterocerists』 J. 173: 407–408.
- Immature Stages of Four Bombycidae Species of Taiwan Archived 2012-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Shipher, Wu; Fu, Chien-Ming; Shih, Li-Chen; Lin, Hsu-Hong (2013). Endromidae. Moths of Hehuanshan. Nantou: Endemic Species Research Institute. pp. 242–245, pl. 19: 10–15, 20: 1–3, 21: 12, 13.
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