(previously known as Pagyda callipona) SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson,
Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moth has translucent white wings, each with sinuous darker yellow bands outlined in rusty brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species is found in:
Further reading :
Graham J. McDonald,
Moths of Tropical North Queensland,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 75 (December 2014), pp. 7-12, Figure 12.
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera of the families Noctuidae and Pyralidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 32 (1908), pp. 93-94.
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(written 17 March 2012, updated 23 March 2012, 14 February 2015)