Hyalostola is a monotypic moth genus belonging to the subfamily Drepaninae first described by George Hampson in 1914.[1] Its only species, Hyalostola phoenicochyta, described by the same author in the same year, is found on Borneo.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Drepanidae |
| Subfamily: | Drepaninae |
| Genus: | Hyalostola Hampson, 1914 |
| Species: | H. phoenicochyta
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| Binomial name | |
| Hyalostola phoenicochyta Hampson, 1914
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The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are semi-hyaline white, irrorated (sprinkled) with rufous scales and tinged with purplish crimson to beyond the middle. There are traces of rufous postmedial line, oblique to vein 4 and then incurved. There are some rufous marks before the termen. The hindwings are semi-hyaline white, tinged with purplish crimson, and irrorated with some rufous scales. There are some diffused rufous marks on the termen.[3]
References
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- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hyalostola". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Hyalostola Hampson, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
- ^ Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 14: 107
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