Heteromicta nigricostella Hampson, 1898
 GALLERIINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moths of this species have brown frewings, each with two variable dark marks near the middle. The hindwings are pale brown, fading to off-white at the bases. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

Heteromicta nigricostella
drawing by George Hampson,
Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères / Rédigés par N.M. Romanoff, Volume 8 (1901), Plate LIII, fig. 3,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    George F. Hampson,
    A classification of the Pyralidae, subfamily Gallerianae,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 24 (1917), p. 50.

    George F. Hampson,
    Monographie des Galleriinae,
    Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères / Rédigés par N.M. Romanoff,
    Volume 8 (1901), p. 441, and also Plate 53, fig. 3.

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    (written 2 December 2015, updated 30 August 2019)