(formerly known as Atychia episcota) 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 vague incomplete wavy pale line across the middle. The hindwings are dark brown, each with a two pale spots, one on the hind-margin. The head, thorax, and abdomen are dark brown. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Micro-lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), p. 68.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 14 November 2022)