(formerly known as Balataea androgyna) BRACHODIDAE, SESIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
These adult moths have yellow forewings, each with a large dark brown band across the middle, and a brown line along the costa and around the margin. The hindwings are yellow, each with a brown band around the edge. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Microlepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 38 (1913), p. 203.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 2 June 2019)