Asterivora homotypa (Meyrick, 1907) (previously known as Choreutis homotypa) CHOREUTINAE,   CHOREUTIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Reiner Richter, Melbourne, Victoria)

The adults moths have brown forewings, each with various white markings including two vague transverse white speckled bars, and an orange band around the margin. The hindwings are brown, each with a vague white wiggly submarginal line. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in :

Tasmania.

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Further reading

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32 (1907), pp. 109-110, No. 204.

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(written 13 April 2020, updated 2 November 2024)