| (one synonym is Paranthrene caerulifera Turner, 1922) SESIINAE, SESIIDAE, SESIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| (one synonym is Paranthrene caerulifera Turner, 1922) SESIINAE, SESIIDAE, SESIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species look remarkably like wasps, but have a wider connection between the thorax and abdomen. The moths black forewings and transparent hindwings.
The species occurs in Australia in
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
A classification of the Aegeriadae of the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 26 (1919), p. 108. No. 48.
A. Kallies,
New records and a revised checklist
of the Australian clearwing moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae),
Journal of the Australian Entomological Society,
Volume 40, Part 4 (October 2001), pp. 342-348.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 12 March 2017)