Mabra eryxalis (Walker, 1859)
 (previously known as Asopia eryxalis)
PYRAUSTINI   ,     PYRAUSTINAE   ,     CRAMBIDAE

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


(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda)

The moth has yellow forewings with several wiggly dark lines and a big dark smudge on each forewing.

Specimens of this species have been caught in :

  • Chagos Archipelago,
  • China,
  • Hong Kong, and
  • Taiwan,
    as well as in Australia in
  • Queensland.

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    (updated 17 March 2012)