Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Xyloryctidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Zauclophora | |
Zauclophora procellosa is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Lucas in 1901. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
The wingspan is 20-28 mm. The forewings are light ochreous freely dusted and marked with ferrous diffusions, and ferruginous scales deeper ferrous at their apex, and becoming almost black on the hindmargin. There is a fine ferruginous line on the costa and a subcostal band of ground colour divides this from a band of ferruginous which runs parallel from the base to two-thirds of the wing, and then turns inward to form a suffused cloud, with a like median band, originating from itself near the base and enclosing an area of ground colour. At four-fifths of the costa, a cloudy fascia of ferruginous extends more or less diffusedly around the margin of the wing to the anal angle and a more diffused cloud of the same colour runs along the whole length of the inner margin, but shows more of ground colour, and with the median band encloses a strip of ground colour. A dark ferruginous spot is found in the disc, and second smaller one just beyond. A costal, apical and hindmarginal interrupted line of dark spots and lines bound a patch of ground colour continuous with the subcostal, and encloses a short transverse ferruginous fascia which commingles with the median fascia. The hindwings are smoky fuscous, shaded to ochreous toward the base.