(previously known as Pionea brevialis) PYRAUSTINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moths have wings that are are pale brown with a dark area bounded by jagged indistinct lines across each forewing. The hindwings are plain brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.
The species is found across south-east Asia, including:
and in Australia in
This species needs to assigned to a new genus as it differs in basic structure from the type species Hylobathra archeleuca.
Further reading
Hari Sutrisno and Marianne Horak,
Revision of the Australian species of Hyalobathra Meyrick
(Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) based on adult morphology
and with description of a new species,
Australian Journal of Entomology,
Volume 42, Issue 3 (August 2003), pp 233–248.
Francis Walker,
Pyralides,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 18 (1859), p. 759, No. 16.
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(updated 23 January 2013, 2 September 2019, 29 December 2020)