Miscera centropis Meyrick, 1907
(misspelled as Miscera centropus)
BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Miscera centropis
(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.

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

The species has been found in

  • Western Australia,
  • Victoria.

    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)