Strepsinoma amaura Meyrick, 1897 ACENTROPINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

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

The adults have wings which are brown or grey, each with a pale submarginal arc. The forewings also have some indistinct white markings. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in south-east Asia, including

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
On Lepidoptera from Malay Archipelago,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1897, p. 86.

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(updated 9 March 2012)