Lipararchis tranquillalis (Lederer, 1863)
 (one synonym is Calamachrous affinis Rothschild, 1915)
SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


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

The moth has slightly patterned brown forewings, sometimes with wide yellow margins. The hindwings are a plain pale yellow. The wingspan is about 4 cms.


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

This species has been found across south-east Asia, for example in :

  • Malaysia,
  • Philippines,
  • , New Guinea

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland.


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

    Further reading :

    Julius Lederer,
    Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pyralidinen,
    Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift,
    Volume 7, Part 11 (1863), p. 466, No. 46.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 42.

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    (updated 28 December 2009, 13 October 2014)