Ptyobathra atrisquamella (Hampson, 1901) (previously known as Herculia atrisquamella) PHYCITINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (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 dark brown forewings, each with two faint pale transverse zigzag lines. The hindwings are off-white with dark veins. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in :

Queensland.

drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Oligochroa atrisquamella,
in Émile Louis Ragonot: Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les lépidoptères,
Paris : Imprimerie de Générale Lahure, Volume VIII, Plate LVII, fig. 19,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading :

George Francis Hampson,
in Émile Louis Ragonot: Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les lépidoptères,
Paris : Imprimerie de Générale Lahure, Volume 8, pp. 551-552, No. 406, and also Plate 57, fig. 19.

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