The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·342148SpeciesInsecta276 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Butterflies and Moths
  7. ›Curved-horn Moths
  8. ›Concealer Moths
  9. ›Leistarcha
Leistarcha scitissimella
Plate 1 of 11. (c) Cathy Powers, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Cathy Powers · via iNaturalist

Leistarcha scitissimella

Leistarcha scitissimella is a moth of the family Xyloryctidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Queensland.

The wingspan is about 31 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, very closely strewn with very elongate whitish scales. All veins and extreme the costal margin are slenderly whitish and there is a clear dark fuscous streak above the cell from the base to before the middle, then obscurely continued between the veins to the costa before the apex. There is a dark fuscous-streak beneath the cell almost from the base to the middle and a sharply defined dark fuscous streak from the middle of the disc to the hindmargin beneath the apex. There is also a slender dark fuscous streak along the inner margin from near the base to the middle of the hindmargin, broader on the anal angle and then attenuated, sharply interrupted by the veins. The hindwings are fuscous-grey, rather lighter towards the base.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Leistarcha scitissimella in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 342148.