Didymostoma aurotinctalis Hampson, 1898
 (previously known as Bocchoris aurotinctalis)
SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Didymostoma aurotinctalis
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The moths of this species have transparent wings each with several dark markings. Both the fore and hind wings have a doubly concave margin. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species may be found in :

  • New Guinea,

    and in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 9.32, p. 356.

    George F. Hampson,
    Revision of moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae,
    Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,
    1898, p. 653, No. 26.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 36.

    Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
    A Guide to Australian Moths,
    CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 129.

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    (updated 3 November 2010, 8 December 2022)