Myriostephes crocobapta Turner, 1908
 SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Myriostephes crocobapta
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species is pale brown with a broad dark margin and dark jagged submarginal lines on each wing. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 43.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera of the families Noctuidae and Pyralidae,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 32 (1908), p. 104.

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    (updated 24 May 2013)