Hylebatis scintillifera Turner, 1908
ACENTROPINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Hylebatis scintillifera
(Photo: courtesy of Nick Monaghan)

The wings of the adult moth are brown, with white and yellow markings. The hindwing margins are decorated by a number of black spots. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

Hylebatis scintillifera
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in Australia in :

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Further reading :

    Peter Hendry,
    Hylebatis scintillifera Turner, 1908 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Acentropinae),
    Metamorphosis Australia,
    Issue 96 (March 2020), p. 18,
    Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera of the families Noctuidae and Pyralidae,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 32 (1908), pp. 84-85.


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    (updated 27 March 2011)