(misspelled as Miscera centropus) BRACHODIDAE, SESIOIDEA | (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.
The species has been found in
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)