{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Speciesbox | image = Phaloesia saucia.JPG | image2 = | taxon = Phaloesia saucia | parent_authority = Walker, 1854 | authority = Walker, 1854 | synonyms = *''Phaloesia fulvicollis'' <small>Butler, 1876</small> *''Cocastra gentilis'' <small>Boisduval, 1870</small> *''Phaloesia venezuelae'' <small>Butler, 1876</small> *''Phaloesia chalybea'' <small>Butler, 1876</small> *''Phaloesia flaviventris'' <small>Reich, 1938</small> }}
'''''Phaloesia''''' is a monotypic of tiger moth genus in the family Erebidae. Its only species is '''''Phaloesia saucia''''', the '''saucy beauty moth'''. The genus and species were first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found from the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=8039 |title=930351.00 – 8039 – ''Phaloesia saucia'' – Saucy Beauty Moth – Walker, 1854 |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=September 6, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://texasento.net/Phaloesia.htm |first=Mike |last=Quinn |title=Saucy Beauty |work=Texas Lep Information |publisher=Texas Entomology |accessdate=December 27, 2016}}</ref> to Venezuela.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/pericopinae/phaloesia/#saucia |title=''Phaloesia saucia'' Walker, 1854 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=September 6, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Becker |first=Vitor O. |date=September 15, 2013 |url=http://www.lepidopteraresearchfoundation.org/journals/46/jrl_46_53_66.pdf |title=Taxonomic changes in the Neotropical Pericopina and Ctenuchina moths (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini), with description of new taxa |journal=The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera |volume=46 |pages=53–66 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224105327/http://www.lepidopteraresearchfoundation.org/journals/46/jrl_46_53_66.pdf |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
Adults are on wing nearly year round. Adults have been observed feeding on nectar from ''Chromolaena odorata'', ''Aloysia gratissima'' and ''Sabal mexicana''.<ref name="BugGuide">{{cite web |last=Quinn |first=Mike |date=May 22, 2016 |url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/158932 |title=Species ''Phaloesia saucia'' - Saucy Beauty - Hodges#8039 |website=BugGuide |accessdate=September 6, 2019}}</ref> The larvae feed on ''Tournefortia'' species, including ''Tournefortia volubilis''.<ref name="BugGuide"/>
==Taxonomy== ''Phaloesia fulvicollis'' was previously wrongly listed as a synonym of ''Gnophaela aequinoctialis''.
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Category:Pericopina Category:Moths described in 1854 Category:Monotypic moth genera Category:Moths of North America Category:Moths of Central America Category:Moths of South America Category:Fauna of the Rio Grande valleys Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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