Miscera mesochrysa (Lower, 1903) (formerly known as Atychia mesochrysa) BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Daniel Heald, Perth, Western Australia)

These adult moths have dark brown forewings, each with a faint white arc from the middle of the margin to the middle of the hind-margin. The hindwings are dark brown, each with a broad yellow arc across the middle. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of New Australian Noctuina, etc.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), p. 68.

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(written 14 March 2022)