Xyroptila marmarias Meyrick, 1908
PTEROPHORINAE,   PTEROPHORIDAE,   PTEROPHORIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Debbie Matthews & Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

This adult moth is brown with alternating bands of white and yellow on the wings and on the abdomen.

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Notes and descriptions of Pterophoridae and Orneodidae,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1907, p. 480.


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    (written 22 July 2015)