Lamoria pachylepidella

Lamoria pachylepidella Hampson, 1898
GALLERIINAE, PYRALIDAE, PYRALOIDEA

Lamoria pachylepidella
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths of this species have brown wings with dark speckles on each forewing. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in Australia in

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.

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.

Australian
Australian Butterflies

(written 2 December 2015)