Scoparia plagiotis Meyrick, 1887 SCOPARIINI,   SCOPARIINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Jim Duggan, Wellington Park, Tasmania)

The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings, each with a complex grey or dark brown pattern, including two elongated dark spots near the middle. The hindwings are off-white darkening towards the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been caught in

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
On Pyralidina from Australia and the South Pacific,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1887, p. 247.

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(written 16 February 2023)