Metasia ateloxantha (Meyrick, 1887)
(previously known as Eurycreon ateloxantha)
SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Metasia ateloxantha
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth has speckled grey-brown wings, with some indistinct zigzag dark lines across each one. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    On Pyralidina from Australia and the South Pacific,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1887, pp. 242-243.


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    (written 28 January 2013, updated 23 June 2019)