Titanoceros cataxantha Meyrick, 1884
 EPIPASCHIINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Titanoceros cataxantha
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Hendry, Sheldon, Queensland)

The adult moth has brown forewings, each with various markings, including a large irregular variable pale patch around the wing-tip. The hindwings are yellow with brown margins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • New Guinea

    as well as in Australia in

  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    On the classification of Australian Pyralidina,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1884, p. 63, No. 1.

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    (written 20 September 2023, updated 6 April 2026)