Xenogenes chrysoplaca Meyrick, 1910 CALPINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

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

The adult moth of this species has forewings that are dark brown, each with two angled pale lines, and a pale line along the costa and around the margin. The hindwings are yellow, each with a broken dark brown margin. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, northern Western Australia)

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Genera Insectorum,
Lepidoptera Heterocera. Fam. Geometridae,
Volume 104 (1910), pp. 12-13.

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(written 16 August 2021)