Asclerobia flavitinctella (Ragonot, 1893) (previously known as Laodamia flavitinctella) PHYCITINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The moth has pale brown forewings each crossed by a pale band and a dark band, and with a black mark along the costa. The hindwings are white shading to brown at the edges. The head and thorax are pale yellow. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

drawing by E.L. Ragonot, listed as Laodamia flavitinctella,
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Volume 7 (1893), Plate XVII, fig. 9,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Émile Louis Ragonot,
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Paris & Saint Petersberg : Imprimerie Générale Lahiire,
Volume 7 (1893), p. 418, No. 451, and also Plate 17, fig. 9.

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(created 31 August 2012, updated 1 September 2012)