| (one synonym : Syngamia octavialis Walker, 1859) SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
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| (one synonym : Syngamia octavialis Walker, 1859) SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moth has brown wings, with a patch of red and white markings at the base of each wing, and in the middle of each forewing. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species occurs in Australia in
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
Revision of the moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae and family Pyralida. (Part 1),
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,
1898 (part 1), pp. 629-630, No. 10.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 32.
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(updated 17 March 2012, 2 September 2019)