Miscera androgyna Turner, 1913 (formerly known as Balataea androgyna) BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

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

These adult moths have yellow forewings, each with a large dark brown band across the middle, and a brown line along the costa and around the margin. The hindwings are yellow, each with a brown band around the edge. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Microlepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 38 (1913), p. 203.

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(written 2 June 2019)