Miscera holodisca Meyrick, 1907
BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

These adult moths have brown forewings, each with several instinct yellow streaks. The hindwings are yellow, each with a brown band around the edge. The abdomen is banded in yellow and black. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

The species has been found in

  • Western Australia.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 32 (1907), p. 105, No. 171.


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    (written 15 November 2022, updated 16 November 2022)