Anemosa isadasalis Walker, 1859 CHRYSAUGINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Simon Ong, Kununurra, Western Australia)

The moth has brown forewings each with a vague broad dark transverse band ending in two dark marks on the hind margin, and sometimes with a black-edged white spot near the middle of each forewing. The hindwings are yellow, sometimes shading darker at the edges. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

New South Wales.

Note that this genus Anemosa is sometimes placed in ODONTIINAE in CRAMBIDAE.

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

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Further reading:

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 19 (1859), p. 849.

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(written 11 February 2015, updated 12 April 2019, 26 November 2021)