Miscera desmotoma (Lower, 1896) (one synonym: Atychia desmotona Turner, 1913) BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

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

mating pair
(Photo: courtesy of Tricia Stewart, Langwarrin, Victoria)

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.

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

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 20 (1896), pp. 162-163.

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(written 13 November 2022, updated 19 February 2026)