| (previously known as Cenocnemis incurvata) SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
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| (previously known as Cenocnemis incurvata) SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
The adults are a beautiful green colour, with a brown line around the edge of forewing, and two small fuzzy dark dots near the costa of each forewing, and one on each hindwing. The hindwings have a incurved margin. The males have a black tuft of hairs on the tail. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.
The species is found in
and also in Australia in
Further reading :
William Warren,
New species of Pyralidae &c. from the Khasia Hills,
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
6th Series, Part 18 (1896), p. 116.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 31 January 2013)