(previously known as Hypogryphia rufifasciella) PHYCITINAE, PYRALIDAE, 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 have forewings that are dark brown with reddish-brown veins and a few dark spots. The hindwings are off-white darkening toard the wing-tips. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in :
Further reading :
George Francis Hampson,
in Émile Louis Ragonot: Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les lépidoptères,
Paris : Imprimerie de Générale Lahure, Volume 8, p. 193, No. 280, and also
Plate 48, fig. 26.
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(written 8 February 2022)