| Eilema albicosta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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) | |
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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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- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ "Eilema albicosta (Rogenhofer, 1894)". Lepidoptera and their Ecology.
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