(also known as Syllepte abyssalis) PYRAUSTINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
The moths of this species can have pale brown wings with a thin wiggly dark lines across each wing. The wingspan is about 3 cms. The natural posture of the moth has the abdomen curved upwards.
The species has been found in :
and in Australia in
Further reading :
Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen,
Aanteekeningen over Exotische Lepidoptera,
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,
Volume 35 (1892), p. 172, No. 13, and also
Plate 10, figs. 11-12.
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(updated 17 March 2012, 4 April 2016)