Glaucocharis dilatella (Meyrick, 1879) (previously known as Eromene dilatella) CRAMBINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Brian Cartwright, Adelaide Hills, South Australia)

The adult moths of this species have cream forewings, each with a substantial brown or black mottling, and a row of black and orange spots along the margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The moths are inclined to hold their long labial palps straight out in front of the head, looking like a birds beak. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, at Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

The species has been found in :

South Australia.

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

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 32.20, p. 351.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera I: Crambites,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 3, Part 3 (1879), p. 199.

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(updated 6 June 2011, 1 September 2019)