Miscera lygropis Turner, 1913 BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Tony Bush, Wooli, New South Wales)

These adult moths brown forewings each with a pale dot near the middle. The hindwings are also brown, but each has a figure 8 yellow patch near the middle. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

oops: no antennae
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Microlepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 38 (1913), p. 204.

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(written 18 November 2022, 30 July 2024)