Platytes platysticha Turner, 1939
(also known as Scoparia platysticha)
CRAMBINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Platytes platysticha
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each with a number of dark brown streaks which end with a dark spot. The hindwings are plain off-white. The moths are inclined to hold their long labial palps straight out in front of the head, looking like a birds beak. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

  • Tasmania.


    A. Jefferis Turner,
    A second revision of the Lepidoptera of Tasmania,
    courtesy of the
    Library Open Repository, University of Tasmania Library,
    Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania,
    1938, pp. 74-75.


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    (written 27 October 2021)