Endoxyla lichenea (Rothschild, 1896)
 (one synonym is Xyleutes olbia Turner, 1915)
ZEUZERINAE,   COSSIDAE,   COSSOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Endoxyla lichenea
male
(Photo: courtesy of Axel Hausmann, SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen)

The adult moths have grey wings, each with a variable complex pattern of black zizzag markings and blotches. The male moths have a wingspan of about 9 cms.

Endoxyla lichenea
female
(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, Eucalyptus forest, south west of Western Australia)

The female moths have a wingspan of about 13 cms.

Endoxyla lichenea
male
(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, Eucalyptus forest, south west of Western Australia)

The species has been found in

  • Western Australia,
  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.

    Endoxyla lichenea
    female underside

    Endoxyla lichenea
    male underside
    (Photos: courtesy of Paul Kay, Eucalyptus forest, south west of Western Australia)

    Further reading :

    Lionel Walter Rothschild,
    Descriptions of some new species of Lepidoptera, with remarks on some previously described forms,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 3 (1896), p. 601.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
    Volume 27 (1915), p. 54.

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    (written 28 November 2021)