Stericta concisella (Walker, 1866)
(previously known as Matalia concisella)
EPIPASCHIINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Stericta concisella
(Photo: Don Herbison-Evans, Concord, New South Wales)

This Caterpillar is brown with pale bands between segments, and a mottled brown head. It lives in a nest of dead leaves held together with silk on its food plant. It has been found in Sydney and in Byron Bay on:

  • Camphor Laurel ( Cinnamomum camphora, LAURACEAE ).

    It grows to a length of about 2 cms.

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

    The moth has forewings which each have a vague grey or brown pattern, including a prominent submarginal arc of dark-edged pale spots. The hindwings are grey, darkening toward the margins. The moth has a wing span of about 2 cms.

    Stericta concisella
    (Photo: Don Herbison-Evans, Concord, New South Wales)

    The species is found in :

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

    Stericta concisella
    (Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)


    Further reading :

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 187.

    Francis Walker,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 35, Supplement 5 (1866), p. 1728.


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    (updated 21 August 2012, 6 July 2023)