(formerly known as Simaethis basalis) CHOREUTIDAE, SESIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson,
Kuranda, Queensland)
The Caterpillars of this species feed on the foliage of:
The adults have dark brown wings, with each forewing having a yellow bar across it. The hindwings each have a yellow patch.
The species has been found in
and in Australia in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 7.1, p. 293.
Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Lepidoptera. Heft IV, V. Atlas der Heterocera Sphingida. Noctuida,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (1875), p. 18,, and also
Plate 138, Fig. 19.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 22.
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(updated 2 January 2012, 26 June 2021)