(formerly known as Musotima leptorrhoda) MUSOTIMINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species are pink, with a number of brown wiggly lines. The forewing tips each have a yellow area containing a black and white spot. There are some off-white spots of various sizes along each forewing costa. The wing margins are scalloped. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
The species has been found in:
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera of the families Noctuidae and Pyralidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 32 (1908), p. 85.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 12 March 2019)