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Clerarcha agana

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Xyloryctidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Clerarcha

Clerarcha agana is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1890. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from South Australia and Western Australia.

The wingspan is 15-18 mm. The forewings are white, irrorated with dark ochreous-grey, the dorsal half suffused with pale grey and with four small roundish cloudy rather dark grey spots, the first three arranged in a longitudinal row in the disc at one-third, half, and two-thirds, the fourth directly beneath the third. The hindwings are pale whitish-grey.

The larvae feed on the flower spike of Banksia marginata.

References

Clerarcha agana Wikipedia