Emphylica is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1913. It contains only one species, Emphylica xanthocrossa, described in the same article, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from the Northern Territory.
| Emphylica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Pyraustinae |
| Genus: | Emphylica Turner, 1913[1] |
| Species: | E. xanthocrossa
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| Binomial name | |
| Emphylica xanthocrossa Turner, 1913
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The wingspan is 14 mm. The forewings are purple reddish with a large triangular orange spot on the costa beyond the middle. The hindwings are whitish ochreous with a broad pale-fuscous terminal band and the terminal edge is orange, except towards the tornus.[2]
References edit
- ^ Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2017). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
- ^ Turner, A. Jefferis (1913). "Studies in Australian Lepidoptera, Pyralidae". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 24: 159 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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