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Gragaloo Pyralid Moth - Glyphodes microta

Family Crambidae   

This page contains pictures and information about Gragaloo Pyralid Moths that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
 
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Body length 10mm
 
The moth is brown with bold white patterns on wings. This moth often came to our house attracted by the window lights. The caterpillars make web and feed on the flower heads of Gragaloo Parsonsia eucalyptophylla.
 

Reference:
1. Images of Glyphodes microta - All Leps, Barcode of life.
2. Some moths of PYRAUSTINAE in Australia - Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley, 2011. 
3. Moths of Australia - I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, Plate9.1. 

 

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Last updated: August 18, 2011.