Endoxyla polyploca (Turner, 1911) (previously known as Xyleutes polyploca) ZEUZERINAE,   COSSIDAE,   COSSOIDEA

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

Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moths of this species have patchy fawn wings, each with a vague network of fine dark zigzag lines. The thorax has a truncated black chevron separating a grey central area from the white sides. The wingspan is about 4.5 cms.

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

The species is found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 25.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Annals of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 10 (1911), p. 130.

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(updated 5 February 2010)