Endoxyla magniguttata (Gaede, 1933) (one synonym : Xyleutes riparia Turner, 1936) ZEUZERINAE,   COSSIDAE,   COSSOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Michael Jefferies)

The adult moths of this species have brown and white forewings, and brown hindwings. The wingspan of the females is about 12 cms. The wingspan of the males is about 6 cms.

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

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Michael Jefferies)

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Further reading :

Max Gaede,
Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region,
in Adalbert Seitz, A. (ed.) :
The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Section 10 (1933), p. 819, and also Plate 96, fig. c2.

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(updated 12 December 2010, 25 November 2019, 23 May 2021)