Hednota tenuilineata Koch,, 1966 CRAMBINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Helen Wakefield, Bullsbrook, Western Australia)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each with two white streaks, the central one forking twice as it approaches the margin. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the wingtips. The moths are inclined to hold their long labial palps straight out in front of the head, looking like a birds beak. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species is found in :

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Lucien Everard Koch,
The genus Hednota Meyrick (Lepidoptera; Pyralidae, Crambinae) in the south-west of Western Australia, with particular reference to economic webworm species,
Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia,
Volume 49 (1966) p. 111.

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(written 1 May 2024)