(one synonym : Endotricha pyrocaustalis Lower, 1903) ENDOTRICHINAE, PYRALIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Bart Hacobian & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens,
Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria)
These adult moths have brown wings with a vague dark spot near the costa of each forewing, and two faint pale curved lines on both fore and hind wings. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species occurs in:
Further reading :
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of New Australian Noctuina &c.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), p. 60.
Francis Walker,
Pyralides,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 19 (1859), p. 913.
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(updated 29 October 2012, 11 April 2019, 2 May 2022)