(previously known as Sylepta leucodontia) SPILOMELINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings with orange patches and some dark brown spots. The hindwings are brown with some white spots.
The species has been found in
and in Australia in
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
A revision of the moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae and family Pyralidae,
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,
1898, Part 1, pp. 713-714, No. 10.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 49.
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(updated 3 January 2012, 12 December 2020)