Berastagia dissolutella (Snellen, 1880)
CRYPTOBLABINI,   PHYCITINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

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

The moth of this species has brown forewings, and translucent white hindwings.

The species has been found in

  • New Guinea,

    and in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen,
    Natuurlijke Historie, Achtsts Afdeeling. Lepidoptera,
    in P.J. Veth:
    Midden-Sumatra. Reizen en onderzoekingen der Sumatra-Expeditie, uitgerust door het Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 1877–1879, beschreven door de leden der expeditie,
    Leiden : E. J. Brill, Volume iv, p. 81.


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    (written 23 March 2015, updated 9 March 2017, 10 January 2021)