Miscera micrastra Meyrick, 1907 BRACHODIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

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

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

These adult moths have brown forewings, each with a pair of vague white splodges near the margin. The hindwings are dark brown, each with a blobby pale yellow transverse band. The abdomen is black banded with rings of pale yellow hairs. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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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. 172.

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(written 19 November 2022)