Culama crepera Turner, 1939 COSSINAE,   COSSIDAE,   COSSOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, Kulliparu, South Australia)

The adult moths of this species have very dark brown forewings, each with a pattern of black lines. The hindwings are white with black edges. The head is brown. The wingspan is about 4.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in Australia in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 50 (1939), p. 152.

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(written 24 January 2022)