Anassodes mesozonalis Hampson, 1917 (previously: Murgisca mesozonalis) CHRYSAUGINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

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

This moth has green and/or brown forewings with a transverse row of three or four brown-edged white spots accross the middle, and a white area at the base. The hindwings are pale brown, each darkening toward the margin, especially at the wingtip and tornus. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species is found in :

Queensland.

Some taxonomists put this species in ODONTIINAE in CRAMBIDAE, but here following the Checklist of Australian Lepidoptera, we put it in CHRYSAUGINAE in PYRALIDAE.

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Further reading :

George F. Hampson,
Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the sub-families Hydrocampinae, Scoparianae etc.,
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 8, Volume 19 (1917), p. 362.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 29.

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(updated 22 September 2011, 10 April 2019, 20 November 2021)