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Subhajit Roy,
Durgapur, India)
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| PTEROPHORINAE, PTEROPHORIDAE, PTEROPHORIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Debbie Matthews & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Subhajit Roy,
Durgapur, India)
The adult moth of this species is orange-brown, with some black and white markings on the wings. The wings are divided into lobes. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.
The species may have been found in:
as well as in Australia in
This species was thought to be a synonym of Crombrugghia wahlbergi by Nielsen et al but is now treated as a separate species in Australian Faunal Directory.
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Additional Australian Pyralidina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 4, Part 4 (1890), p. 1113.
H.S. Rose and H.S. Pooni,
Taxonomic Studies on the superfamily Pterophoroidea
(Lepidoptera) for northwestern India,
Zoos' Print Journal,
Volume 20, Part 3, p. 1800.
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(updated 31 January 2009, 8 March 2017)