Metasia capnochroa (Meyrick, 1884)
Smokey Metasia Moth
 (previously known as Eurycreon capnochroa)
SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Metasia capnochroa
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth has fawn forewings, each with a faint pattern of zigzag lines, and small white chrevron mark near the middle. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

Metasia capnochroa
(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Churchill, Victoria)

The species has been found in:

  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania, and
  • South Australia.

    Metasia capnochroa
    (Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

    Further reading :

    Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
    Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
    Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), p. 88.

    Edward Meyrick,
    On the classification of Australian Pyralidina.,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1884, p. 338, No. 50.

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    (updated 8 May 2009, 18 December 2017, 2 October 2020)