Xylorycta heliomacula
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| Species: | X. heliomacula
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| Xylorycta heliomacula (Lower, 1894)
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Xylorycta heliomacula is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Lower in 1894. It is found in Australia,[1] where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Queensland.
The wingspan is about 27 mm. The forewings are dark-fuscous, purple shining and with yellow markings. There is an elongate spot immediately beneath the costa at one-third and an irregular quadrate spot immediately beneath on the inner margin before the middle, as well as a large irregular ovate spot just before the apex, beneath which is a smaller spot suffused with three or four lines of ground colour. The hindwings are orange-yellow with a narrow fuscous hindmarginal band, broadest at the anal angle.
The larvae feed on Amyema species and Grevillea striata. They bore in the stem of their host plant.[2]
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