Metasia ateloxantha (Meyrick, 1887) (previously known as Eurycreon ateloxantha) SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth has speckled grey-brown wings, with some indistinct zigzag dark lines across each one. 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 found in:

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
On Pyralidina from Australia and the South Pacific,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1887, pp. 242-243.

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(written 28 January 2013, updated 5 September 2025)