| GALLERIINAE, PYRALIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
drawing by George Hampson,
in Émile Louis Ragonot : Monographie des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff : Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères
Volume 8 (1901), Plate LIV, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.
The adult moths of this species have brown wings, with a complex pattern of light and dark patches and lines on each forewing. The hindwings darken toward the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
A classification of the Pyralidae, subfamily Gallerianae,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 24 (1917), p. 43.
George F. Hampson,
(written 3 December 2015)
in Émile Louis Ragonot:
Monographie des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff:
Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Volume 8 (1901), p. 455, and also
Plate 54, fig. 1.
caterpillar
butterflies
Lepidoptera
moths
caterpillar