| (one synonym: Atychia desmotona Turner, 1913) BRACHODIDAE, SESIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| (one synonym: Atychia desmotona Turner, 1913) 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 dark brown forewings, each with a pale line across the middle. The hindwings are dark brown, each with three pale yellow spots. The head and thorax are dark brown, and the abdomen has alternating rings of grey and brown. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 20 (1896), pp. 162-163.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 13 November 2022)