Catagela adoceta Common

Taxonomy

The holotype of Catagella adoceta Common, 1960: 338, pl. 2, fig. 4, 5. TL Australia, Queensland, 25 miles N. of Gin Gin. The male & female paratypes are in the BMNH.

Description

The males and females are very similar. The FW is chestnut brown, grey-brown proximally on the subcosta. There is a diffuse grey band extending diagonally from the apex until it ends at a similar band which extends up the middle of the wing from its base. The FW has three small dark spots spread along the anal vein. There is a fourth, more distinct, spot near the distal end of the FW cell. There are tiny dark neural punctae at the termen of the FW. The HW is almost entirely shining white.

Life History

A stem borer of Gramineae

References

• Walker, F. (1863 [April 18]) Crambites and Tortricites. In List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 27: 1-286.
• Common, I.F.B. (1960) A revision of the Australian stem borers hitherto referred to Schoenobius and Scirpophaga (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Schoenobiinae). Aust. j. Zool., 8:307-347, 2 pls.