Scoparia niphetodes Turner, 1931 SCOPARIINI,   SCOPARIINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Blackheath, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species are pale grey with dark splotches on the costa and margin of each forewing. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been caught in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Supplementary,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 56 (1931), pp. 343-344.

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