Crocanthes chordotona Meyrick, 1916 LECITHOCERIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species are yellow with two black lines and a black spot on each forewing. The hindwings are plain yellow. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1, Part 19 (1916), p. 592.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 102.

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(updated 30 March 2009, 11 July 2022)