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Cryptophasa hyalinopa

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Cryptophasa hyalinopa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Genus: Cryptophasa
Species:
C. hyalinopa
Binomial name
Cryptophasa hyalinopa
(Lower, 1901)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cryptophaga hyalinopa Lower, 1901

Cryptophasa hyalinopa is a moth of the family Xyloryctidae. It is known from Queensland, Australia.

Description

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The wingspan is about 30 mm for males and about 66 mm for females. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs fleshy-ochreous, head somewhat pinkish tinged, tarsi ringed with blackish. Antennae blackish, pectinations: 2. Abdomen blackish, second segment orange-red. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa, nearly straight, termen obliquely rounded; fleshy-ochreous, darker on basal third; a fine black dot in disc at one-third, a second at posterior extremity of cell, and a third obliquely below and before; two others on fold beyond middle; an obscure row of fine blackish dots along termen to anal angle, not reaching apex. Hindwings semi-hyaline (glassy), basal two-thirds black; cilia whitish becoming fuscous around anal angle. Underside of both wings with basal two-thirds densely black. The sexes of this species are very dissimilar in the hindwings, the male having the terminal half hyaline and the basal half black.[2]

Biology

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The larvae feed on Eucalyptus platyphylla. They bore in the stem of their host plant. Adults are on wing in September and October.

References

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  1. ^ Australian Faunal Directory
  2. ^ Xyloryctine Moths of Australia Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.