Hednotodes callichroa Lower, 1893 CHRYSAUGINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, Nullarbor Plain, South Australia)

The forewings of the adult of this species are off-white, each with a dark brown streak along the costa, and four sinuous dark brown transverse bands. The hindwings are yellow with a brown edge around part of the margin. The moths has 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

Western Australia.

Some taxonomists put this species in ODONTIINAE in CRAMBIDAE, but here following the Checklist of Australian Lepidoptera, we put it in CHRYSAUGINAE in PYRALIDAE.

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 17 (1893), pp. 164-165.

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(written 14 May 2021)