Euthorybeta xanthoplaca Turner, 1913 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 dark brown forewings. each with scattered white markings. The hindwings are orange each with a broad black band around the edge. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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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. 201.

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(written 15 November 2018)