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Notodryas vallata

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Epermeniidae

Scientific name
  
Notodryas vallata

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Notodryas

Rank
  
Species

Notodryas vallata

Notodryas vallata is a moth of the Epermeniidae family. It is known from the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria.

The wingspan is 8-10 mm. The forewings are white with two bright ferruginous fasciae, mixed with black dorsally and sometimes black-edged in the disc. The first is median, inwardly oblique and the second opposite the tornus, vertical, confluent on the costa and sometimes connected in the disc. There are ferruginous streaks from the second fascia along the costa and termen to the apex, sometimes undefined or indistinct, sometimes terminating in an apical spot of black scales. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Eucalyptus macrorhyncha. They tie the leaves of their host plant with silk.

References

Notodryas vallata Wikipedia