Tabidia truncatalis Hampson 1898 SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moth is brown with a purple iridescence, and with some white markings on each forewing. Each wing also has a vague diagonal dark line, and each hindwing has a white edge along part of the margin. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

drawing by George F. Hampson,
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1898 (Part 1), Plate XLIX, fig. 5,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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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. 624-625, No. 5, and also Plate 49, fig. 5.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 49.

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(written 7 August 2013)