Gonioma hospita (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) (formerly known as Cryptolechia hospita) XYLORYCTIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Mission River, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has bluish-grey forewings, each with dark markings, and a large diffuse pale yellowish area at the base and along the costa. The hindwings are pale yellow, darkening towards the margins.

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

The species occurs in

Queensland.

female, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Cryptolechia hospita,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXXXVIII, fig. 57,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

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Further reading :

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologisher Theil,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (1875), list of Plate 138, and also Plate 138, fig. 57.

Ian McMillan,
Gonioma, Xyloryctine Moths of Australia,
Blog, Friday, July 30, 2010.

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