Macrocyttara pamphaea Turner, 1945 COSSINAE,   COSSIDAE,   COSSOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Linda Rogan, Porcupine, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species are grey or brown, each with a vague broad pale central diagonal band, and a fine black tracery. The hindwings are plain dark brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in

South Australia.

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Further reading :

Axel Kallies & Douglas J. Hilton,
Revision of Cossinae and small Zeuzerinae from Australia (Lepidoptera: Cossidae),
Zootaxa,
3454 (2012), p. 17.

A. Jefferis Turner,
A revision of the Australian Cossidae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 56 (1945), p. 69, No. 76.

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(written 6 November 2018, updated 7 February 2024)