Cirrhochrista annulifera Hampson, 1919
 SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of David Knowles, Walcott, Western Australia)

The Caterpillars of this species are thought to feed on:

  • Fig Trees ( Ficus species, MORACEAE ).


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

    The adult moth is satin-white, with forewings that each have three brown triangular marks along the costa, and a broken brown circle near the middle. The moth has a wingspan up to 3 cms.

    It has been found across Asia, including

  • China,
  • India,
  • Vietnam,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    George F. Hampson,
    Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the subfamilies Crambinae and Siginae,
    Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
    Series 9, Volume 4 (1919), p. 323, No. 4b.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 34.

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    (updated 19 January 2009, 2 September 2019, 7 December 2020)