Agastophanes zophoxysta Turner, 1937 EPIPASCHIINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMaster, Mission River, Queensland)

The moth has patchy brown forewings, each with a broad vague reddish band across the middle, and a recurved costa and margin at the wingtip. The hindwings are reddish brown, shading darker at the hindmargin. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 48 (1937), p. 72.

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(written 20 January 2019, updated 15 April 2022)