''Baphala haywardi'' is a species of

snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family (biology), family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian Taxonomic rank, superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Cramb ...

in the genus ''

Baphala ''Baphala'' is a genus of Pyralidae, snout moths. It was described by Carl Heinrich in 1956. Species * ''Baphala homoeosomella'' (Zeller, 1881) * ''Baphala eremiella'' (Dyar, 1910) * ''Baphala glabrella'' (Dyar, 1919) * ''Baphala goyensis'' * '' ...

''. It was described by

Carl Heinrich Carl Heinrich (1880 in New York City – 1955) was an American entomologist. Life He studied Greek and drama at the University of Chicago, he moved to Washington D.C., in 1902, where he worked in business. In 1908, he went to New York to study ...

in 1956 and is found in

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is 15–16 mm. The larvae feed on the

scale insect Scale insects are small insects of the Order (biology), order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. Of dramatically variable appearance and extreme sexual dimorphism, they comprise the infraorder Coccomorpha which is considered a more convenient g ...

''Baphala'' - Cactus Feeding Moths and their Relatives
/ref> '' Ceroplastes grandis''.

References

Moths described in 1956 Phycitinae {{Phycitinae-stub