Cryptophasa russata Butler, 1877
 (previously known as Nycterobius russata)
XYLORYCTIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory)

The adult moth of this species has rusty red forewings each with variable pale patches, and with a white line along the costa. The hindwings are yellow. The moth has a wingspan of about 5 cms.


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

The species occurs in

  • New Guinea,

    and Australia in

  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.

    Further reading :

    Arthur G. Butler,
    Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera from New Guinea, with notice of a new genus,
    Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,
    1877, p. 475, No. 48.

    Ian McMillan,
    Cryptophasa russata, Xyloryctine Moths of Australia,
    Blog, Wednesday, August 18, 2010.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 218.

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    (updated 4 December 2004, 17 April 2013, 4 September 2022)