Archaeoses magicosema (Meyrick, 1936)
 (previously known as Astaropola magicosema)
COSSIDAE,   COSSOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Archaeoses magicosema
(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Churchill, Victoria)

The caterpillars of this species have been found boring into the stems of

  • Narrow-leaved Hemigenia (Hemigenia purpurea, LAMIACEAE).

    The adult moths have brown forewings, each with various markings including a central transverse white-edged broken dark band. The hindwings are plain brown.

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

    The species has been found in

  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    New species of Pyralies and Microlepidoptera from the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut,
    Arbeiten über Morphologische und Taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem,
    Volume 2 (1936), p. 107.

    Garry A. Webb,
    A larval hostplant of Archaeoses magicosema (Meyrick, 1936) (Lepidoptera, Cossidae),
    General and Applied Entomology,
    Scientific Note.

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    (written 10 January 2017, 11 May 2026)