Hyperxena scierana Meyrick, 1882 HELIOCOSMA Group,   TORTRICOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Jim Duggan, Sandford, Tasmania)

The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each with some short dark diagonal stripes on the costa. The moths are inclined to fold the forewing margins up at a dihedral angle. The hindwings are pale silvery brown. The labial palps are long, and held in front of the head like a beak. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in :

Tasmania.

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Further reading

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. VII. Revisional,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 7, Part 2 (1882), pp. 177-178.

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(written 23 December 2018, updated 3 November 2023)