Lophothoracia omphalella Hampson, 1901) PHYCITINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The moth has off-white forewings each with brown patches, an arc of dark spots along the margin, and two black wavy transverse lines. The hindwings are off-white shading darker at the edges. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

New South Wales.

drawing by George Francis Hampson,
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae, by É.L. Raganot,
Mémoires sur les lépidoptères / rédigés par N.M. Romanoff, by N.M. Romanoff,
Tome VIII (1901), Planche LVI, fig. 20,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading :

George F. Hampson,
in É.L. Raganot:
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in N.M. Romanoff,
Mémoires sur les lépidoptères / rédigés par N.M. Romanoff,
Volume 8 (1901), p. 537, No. 241, and also List of Illustrations and Plate 56, fig. 20.

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(written 8 October 2018)