Stericta bryomima (Turner, 1913) (previously known as Orthaga bryomima) EPIPASCHIINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Frank Pierce, Bend Of Islands, Victoria)

This moth has variable patchy brownish-green forewings, each with two thin, partly white-edged black, irregular, zigzag, transverse bands. The head and thorax are brownish-green. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the margins. The green tinge fades to brown in dead specimens. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species is found in :

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera, Pyralidae,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 24 (1913), p. 141.

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(written 20 January 2019, updated 4 October 2020)