Miscera centropis Meyrick, 1907 (misspelled as Miscera centropus) BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Axel Kallies, Big Desert , Victoria)

These adult moths dark grey or brown forewings, each with a variable pale mark in the middle. The hindwings are yellow, each with a brown band around the edge. The abdomen is banded in yellow and black. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32 (1907), p. 104, No. 170.

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(written 10 November 2022)