(formerly known as Cryptolechia hospita) XYLORYCTIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(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.
The species occurs in
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,
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(updated 17 January 2011, 12 July 2019, 9 September 2022)