Baphala goyensis is a species of snout moth in the genus Baphala. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1901, and is found in south-eastern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Baphala |
| Species: | B. goyensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Baphala goyensis (Ragonot, 1901)
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The wingspan is 18–20 mm. The extreme base of the forewings is blackish fuscous. It is whitish beyond to the broad blackish fuscous antemedial band. The ground color of the wing between the lower margin of the cell and the costa and between the antemedial and subterminal transverse markings is whitish. The remainder of the wing shades to smoky fuscous with only a faint dusting of white at the apex.[1]
The larvae feed on scale insects[2] of the Ceroplastes and Saissetia genera.
References
edit- ^ Bulletin - United States National Museum
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- ^ Baphala - Cactus Feeding Moths and their Relatives
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