Prosthenia xyloryctella Hampson, 1917 GALLERIINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of David Fischer, Border Ranges, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species have greenish-brown frewings, each crossed by two serrated dark lines, and with an irregular dark crescent near the middle. The hindwings off-white shading to pale brown at the margins. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

George F. Hampson,
A classification of the Pyralidae, subfamily Gallerianae,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 24 (1917), p. 48.

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(written 9 May 2026)