Oruza crocodeta (Turner, 1903) (formerly known as Xanthoptera crocodeta) BOLETOBIINAE,   EREBIDAE

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

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

The adult moths of this species are brown, with some narrow pale curved and zigzag lines across each wing, and a broad yellow line along the costa of each forewing. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic and other notes: Noctuidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), p. 11.

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(written 21 September 2018, updated 8 September 2019)