Epicroesa thiasarca Meyrick, 1907 HELIODINIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Greene Chen, Taroko, Taiwan)

The forewings of the adult moth are a metallic brown with various metallic coloured markings including a gold area around the margin of each forewing containing two silver spots and a silver arc. The hindwings are rather narrow, and are plain brown. The antennae are longer than the forewings. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera XIX Plutellidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32 (1907), p. 95, No. 156.

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(written 19 March 2019, updated 20 June 2024)