(formerly : Baryphanes microspila) DREPANIDAE, DREPANOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species rusty-brown forewings each with a vague partial narrow reddish mid-wing streak. The hindwings are pale rusty-brown. The head and thorax are dark rusty-brown, and the abdomen is paler brown. The forewings have recurved wingtips. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species lives in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
Fragmenta lepidopterologica,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 53 (1941), p. 78, No. 43.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | imagoes | caterpillar |
(written 15 April 2019)