Alucita xanthodes Meyrick, 1890
(one synonym : Orneodes xanthodes)
ALUCITIDAE

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

(updated 3 September 2007)


(Specimen: courtesy of the The Australian Museum)

This moth has each wing divided into six separate fronds. Each frond has the same pattern of six alternate yellow and white patches, with a dark spot each side of the second, fourth and sixth yellow marks. Its wingspan is about 1.2 cms.

The species occurs in Queensland.


Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 327.


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