| Desert Stub Moth (one synonym: Oxymetopa phaeogramma Turner, 1943) OENOSANDRIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The wings of the moth are grey, with the forewings being darker and each having a number of submarginal dark sinuous parallel lines. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.
The species is found over the south-east quarter of Australia, including
Further reading :
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 2,,
Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A)
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 6-7.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection,
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 12, Part 1 (1941), p. 41.
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(updated 21 December 2009, 20 January 2020, 26 January 2021)