Miscera episcota (Lower, 1903)
(formerly known as Atychia episcota)
BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

These adult moths have dark brown forewings, each with a vague incomplete wavy pale line across the middle. The hindwings are dark brown, each with a two pale spots, one on the hind-margin. The head, thorax, and abdomen are dark brown. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.

The species has been found in

  • Western Australia.


    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new Australian Micro-lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 27 (1903), p. 68.


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    (written 14 November 2022)