Podalia mallas

Description

Podalia mallas is a moth of the Megalopygidae family. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1899. It is found in Brazil. The wingspan is about 30 mm. The wings are light brown, the forewings woolly toward the base and the costa shaded with white to across the cell and an the outer straight white line across the wing. The veins are narrowly dark with two dark-brown spots at the extreme base of the wing. The hindwings are without marks.