Hednota pedionoma (Meyrick, 1885)
(one synonym : Metasia bilunalis Hampson, 1913)
CRAMBINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Hednota pedionoma
(Photo: courtesy of Jenny Holmes, Victoria)

This Caterpillar is a pest on :

  • various Cereals ( POACEAE ).

    Hednota pedionoma
    (Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

    The adult moths have forewings that have a brown pattern often overlaid with yellow at the bases, with an irregular dark brown flash across the middle. The hindwings are plain white. The moths are inclined to hold their long labial palps hanging out in front of the head, looking like a birds beak. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

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

    The species is found in :

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    Hednota pedionoma
    underside
    (Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)


    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 32.14, pp. 66, 351.

    Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
    Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
    Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), pp. 82-83.

    Edward Meyrick,
    On the classification of the Australian Pyralidina,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1885, part 4, p. 453.


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    (updated 6 September 2011, 1 May 2018, 1 September 2019)