Stachyneura sceliphrodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Genus: Stachyneura
Species:
S. sceliphrodes
Binomial name
Stachyneura sceliphrodes
(Meyrick, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Cryptophasa sceliphrodes Meyrick, 1925

Stachyneura sceliphrodes is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found in Queensland, Western New Guinea and Papua New Guinea.[1][2]

The wingspan is 35–40 mm. The forewings are pale greyish ochreous with snow-white reflections, the veins are white sprinkled with dark red brown or sometimes suffused with reddish. There is a snow-white costal streak broad at the base and narrowed to a point at about three-fourths. The cell and dorsal area are more or less suffused with reddish or brown, with thick oblique streaks of blackish or dark red-brown sprinkles from the dorsum at one-third and beyond the middle, and a spot towards the tornus, the spaces between these sometimes suffused with white. There is a terminal series of blackish or dark red-brown triangular dots. The hindwings are light greyish ochreous.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (December 15, 2013). "Stachyneura sceliphrodes (Meyrick, 1925)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ McMillan, Ian (2 July 2010). "Stachyneura". Xyloryctine Moths of Australia. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  3. ↑ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (5-7): 150.


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