Miscera homotona (Swinhoe, 1892) (formerly known as Balataea homotoma) BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory)

These adult moths have dark brown forewings, each with one or two large touching orange marks. The hindwings are white each with a broad black band around the edge. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Australian Capital Territory.

male, drawing by Charles Swinhoe, listed as Balataea homotoma,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Part 1: Sphinges and Bombyces (1892), Plate II, Fig. 18,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

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Further reading :

Charles Swinhoe,
Sphinges and Bombyces,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Clarendon Press, Part 1 (1892), pp. 36-37, No. 145, and also Plate 2, Fig. 18.

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(written 20 February 2015, updated 25 September 2025)