Glyphodes callipona (Turner, 1908)
(previously known as Pagyda callipona)
SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Glyphodes callipona
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth has translucent white wings, each with sinuous darker yellow bands outlined in rusty brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

Glyphodes callipona
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species is found in:

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    Graham J. McDonald,
    Moths of Tropical North Queensland,
    Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club.
    Metamorphosis Australia,
    Issue 75 (December 2014), pp. 7-12, Figure 12.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera of the families Noctuidae and Pyralidae,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 32 (1908), pp. 93-94.


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    (written 17 March 2012, updated 15 July 2024)