Zaphanaula
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Xyloryctidae |
Genus: | Zaphanaula Meyrick, 1920 |
Species: | Z. hemileuca
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Binomial name | |
Zaphanaula hemileuca (Turner, 1896)
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Zaphanaula hemileuca is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae, and the only species in the genus Zaphanaula. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1896. It is found in Australia,[1] where it has been recorded from Queensland.
The wingspan is 15–20 mm. The forewings are snow-white with a broad fuscous streak from the base along the costa to one-third, which then proceeds a fuscous fascia, slightly outwardly oblique, to the inner margin before the middle, its anterior edge sharply defined, the posterior edge suffused. There is a darker dot on the fold on the posterior edge of this fascia and a broad fuscous fascia from the costa near the apex, narrowing abruptly to a point at the anal angle. Between the two fasciae are some obscure fuscous markings in the costal portion of the disc and there is a fuscous spot on the hindmargin below the middle. The hindwings are grey, with the basal half whitish-ochreous.
The larvae feed on Acacia aulacocarpa.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ funet.fi
- ^ Xyloryctine Moths of Australia
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