Mustilia fusca

Mustilia fusca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Endromidae
Genus:	Mustilia
Species:	M. fusca
Binomial name
	Mustilia fusca; Kishida, 1993

Mustilia fusca is a moth in the family Endromidae first described by Yasunori Kishida in 1993. It is found in Taiwan.[1]

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.[2] 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.
Immature Stages of Four Bombycidae Species of Taiwan Archived 2012-05-12 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] 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.

[2] Immature Stages of Four Bombycidae Species of Taiwan Archived 2012-05-12 at the Wayback Machine