Boeotarcha taenialis (Snellen, 1880)
 (previously known as Botys taenialis)
ODONTIINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Thursday Island, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have dark brown forewings which have a purple sheen, each with a broken off-white transverse bar. The hindwings are off-white, darkening towards the edges. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.


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

This species is found in

  • Indonesia,

    and in Australia in

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen,
    Nieuwe Pyraliden op Celebes gevonden door M. C. Piepers.,
    Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,
    Volume 23 (1880), p. 209, No. 12.

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    (updated 17 March 2012, 14 April 2017, 7 March 2019, 27 January 2021, 23 June 2022)