Crocanthes halurga Meyrick, 1904 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 dark margins and a broad dark band across each forewing. The hindwings are plain brown. 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 is found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVIII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 29 (1904), p. 399, No. 218.

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(written 23 December 2012)