Stericta carbonalis (Guenée, 1854) (previously known as Helia carbonalis) EPIPASCHIINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Joan Fearn, Moruya, New South Wales)

This moth has black or very dark brown or grey forewings, each crossed by a serrated white arc, and with a submarginal white sickle-shaped line, both of which can degenerate into one or more of white spots, particularly at the costa. The hindwings are white, darkening toward the margins.

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

The species has been found in :

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Achille Guenée,
Deltoïdes et Pyralites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 8 (1854), p. 77, No. 97.

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(written 16 October 2013, updated 17 November 2025)