(previously known as Helia carbonalis) EPIPASCHIINAE, PYRALIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Joan Fearn, Moruya, New South Wales)
This moth has a very dark brown or grey pattern on the forewings, and white hindwings which darken toward the margins.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Achille Guenée,
Deltoïdes et Pyralites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 8 (1854), p. 77, No. 97.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 16 October 2013, updated 1 February 2019, 4 November 2020)