Hednota crypsichroa (Lower, 1896)
 (one synonym is Prosmixis discilunalis Hampson, 1919)
CRAMBINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Hednota crypsichroa
(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Melba, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each with a dark smudge at the wingtip, and a speckled dark streak along the middle of the wing that sometimes has an irregular black-edged white spot in it. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the margins. The moths are inclined to hold their long labial palps straight out in front of the head, looking like a birds beak. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 17 (1893), p. 166.

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    (written 1 May 2022)