Gonioma hospita (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
(formerly known as Cryptolechia hospita)
XYLORYCTIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Gonioma hospita
(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Mission River, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has bluish-grey forewings, each with dark markings, and a large diffuse pale yellowish area at the base and along the costa. The hindwings are pale yellow, darkening towards the margins.

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

The species occurs in

  • Queensland.

    Gonioma hospita
    female, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Cryptolechia hospita
    ,
    Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
    Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXXXVIII, fig. 57,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.


    Further reading :

    Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
    Zoologisher Theil,
    Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
    Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (1875), list of Plate 138, and also Plate 138, fig. 57.

    Ian McMillan,
    Gonioma, Xyloryctine Moths of Australia,
    Blog, Friday, July 30, 2010.


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    (updated 17 January 2011, 12 July 2019, 9 September 2022)