Xestocasis balanochrysa Meyrick, 1915 COSMOPTERIGINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

These adult moths have yellow forewings, each with dark markings, including a broad dark band across the middle, and at the tornus. The hindwings are brown. The head and thorax are brown, but the abdomen is yellow. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Queensland.

The placement of this species in COSMOPTERIGIDAE is controversial. It is also sometimes placed in HELIODINIDAE or in STATHMOPODIDAE.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1 (1915), p. 316.

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(written 9 February 2013, updated 18 June 2025)