''Araeostoma aenicta'' is a
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family
Xyloryctidae
Xyloryctidae is a family of moths contained within the superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. Most genera are found in the Indo-Australian region. While many of these moths are tiny, some members of the family grow to a wing ...
, and the only species in the genus ''Araeostoma''. It was described by Turner in 1917 and is found in
Australia, where it has been recorded from
Queensland
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, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, establishe ...
and
New South Wales
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, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
.
The
wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan o ...
is 17–28 mm. The forewings are fuscous with patchy whitish irroration and a dark fuscous discal dot above the middle at one-third and a second obliquely elongate before two-thirds. The posterior third of the costal edge is whitish with four dark fuscous dots and with a fine crenulate whitish line just before the termen. The hindwings are fuscous.
Xyloryctine Moths of Australia
References
Xyloryctidae
Monotypic moth genera
Moths of Australia
Xyloryctidae genera
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