Barbifrontia hemileucella (Hampson, 1901) (one synonym: Sthenobela niphostibes Turner, 1904) PHYCITINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with a paler costal half and a darker area along hind margin, as well as a dark line along the costa, a dark mark near the middle, and some dark zigzag submarginal markings.

The hindwings are pale brown fading to white at the bases. The moth has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

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

The species occurs in

Queensland.

drawing by George F. Hampson,
in Émile Louis Raganot: Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Volume VIII (1901), Plate LVI, fig. 2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading :

George F. Hampson,
in Émile Louis Raganot:
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff:
Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Paris & Saint Petersberg : Imprimerie Générale Lahiire,
Volume 8 (1901), p. 525, No. 175, and also Plate 56, fig. 2.

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(written 16 February 2022)