Glyphodes onychinalis (Guenée, 1854)
Swan Plant Flower Moth
 (one synonym : Zebronia braurealis Walker, 1859)
SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Todd Burrows, South Stradbroke Island, Queensland)

The caterpillars of this species have been found feeding on :

  • Oleander ( Nerium oleander, APOCYNACEAE ), and
  • Swan Plant ( Gomphocarpus fruticosus, ASCLEPIADACEAE ).


    (Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

    The adult moths have a striking brown and white pattern. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

    The species has been found in the sub-tropics around the world in :

  • Hong Kong,
  • India,
  • Japan,
  • New Zealand,
  • Republic of the Congo,
  • Taiwan,
  • USA,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales,

    but is suspected of being a group of superficially similar species.

    Further reading :

    Achille Guenée,
    Deltoïdes et Pyralites,
    in Boisduval & Guenée :
    Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
    Volume 9, Part 8 (1854), p. 205, No. 158.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 39.

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    (updated 25 February 2011, 19 November 2019, 27 October 2020)