Asclerobia flavitinctella (Ragonot, 1893) (previously known as Laodamia flavitinctella) PHYCITINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The moth has pale brown forewings each crossed by a pale band and a dark band, and with a black mark along the costa. The hindwings are white shading to brown at the edges. The head and thorax are pale yellow. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

(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 E.L. Ragonot, listed as Laodamia flavitinctella,
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Volume 7 (1893), Plate XVII, fig. 9,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

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Further reading :

Émile Louis Ragonot,
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Paris & Saint Petersberg : Imprimerie Générale Lahiire,
Volume 7 (1893), p. 418, No. 451, and also Plate 17, fig. 9.

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(created 31 August 2012, updated 12 July 2023)