| MIDILINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| MIDILINAE, CRAMBIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have yellowish brown forewings, each with two transverse wavy lines, and a pale basal area containing a scattering of dark dots. The brown shades to grey along the costa, the margin, and the hind-margin. The hindwings are brown, fading to off-white at the bases, with a dark wiggly submarginal line. The forewing margins have a slight double recurve, with the tornal recurve looking like a little bite out of the wing. The head and thorax are pale rusty-red. The males have a wingspan of about 5 cms. The females have a wingspan of about 6 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading:
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria,
Volume 35 (1922), p. 48.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 17 March 2019, updated 5 March 2021)