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

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