Crocanthes perigrapta Meyrick, 1904 LECITHOCERIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Trevor Jinks, North Burnett, Queenland)

The adult moths of this species are yellow with a black margin and a single black line across each wing. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms. They are inclined to rest upside-down on a grass stem, and look very like a grass seed head.

(Photo: courtesy of Trevor Jinks, North Burnett, Queenland)

The species is found in

New South Wales.

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

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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. 402, No. 223.

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(updated 22 March 2011, 14 March 2021)