![]() | (previously known as Endoxyla epicycla) ZEUZERINAE ,   COSSIDAE, COSSOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Daniel Kurek,
Tuerong, Victoria)
These adult moths have forewings that are grey each with broken wiggly black lines, and a prominent black spot near the middle. The hindwings are plain grey or brown. The wingspan is about 4.5 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 26.8, p. 272.
Axel Kallies & Douglas J. Hilton,
Revision of Cossinae and small Zeuzerinae from Australia (Lepidoptera: Cossidae),
Zootaxa,
3454 (2012), p. 28.
A. Jefferis Turner,
A revision of the Australian Cossidae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 56 (1945), pp. 51-52, No. 15.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 93.
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(updated 16 September 2013, 1 September 2019, 24 May 2021, 20 June 2022)