Podalia guaya

Description

Podalia guaya is a moth of the Megalopygidae family. It was described by William Schaus in 1927. It is found in Paraguay. The wingspan is 30 mm. More than the basal half of the forewings is fuscous, below the cell cinnamon drab, crossed by antemedial and medial double darker lines, the scaling very hairy and undulating, mottled with whitish hairs at the base and along the costa, this space vertical on the outer edge. The outer portion of the wing is drab, mottled next to the dark area with wavy white hairs between the veins, above vein 5 shaded with whitish to the apex, with three short black streaks between veins 5 and 8. The hindwings are drab, the cilia paler. The wings below are drab, the cilia whitish.