Epicroesa ambrosia Meyrick, 1907 HELIODINIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

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

The forewings of the adult moth are a metallic brown with various metallic coloured markings including gold areas around the base and the margin of each forewing. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

The species has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera XIX Plutellidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32 (1907), p. 96, No. 157.

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(written 12 September 2017, updated 19 March 2019)