Xylorycta viduata

Xylorycta viduata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Genus: Xylorycta
Species: X. viduata
Binomial name
Xylorycta viduata
(Walker, 1869)
Synonyms
  • Hyponomeuta viduata Walker, 1869

Xylorycta viduata is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Walker in 1869. It is found in Australia,[1] where it has been recorded from the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria.

The wingspan is about 36 mm. Adults are shining slaty cinereous, the forewings with a narrow black subcostal stripe, which extends from the base to rather beyond half the length and with a black point beyond half the length of the stripe and nearer to the interior border than to the costa. There are two elongate black dots on the disc a little beyond the end of the stripe, one behind the other. The exterior border is rounded and extremely oblique.[2]

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