Tyspanodes metachrysialis Lower, 1903 (one synynym is Tyspanodes phaeosticha Turner, 1913) SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Trevor and Carol Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The adult moth has off-white forewings, each with dark brown veins, a variable broad white band across the middle, and a white patch near the tornus. The hindwings are yellow with an asymmetric dark margin. The wingspan is about 2.5 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

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of New Australian Noctuina, etc.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), p. 63.

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(written 9 January 2026)