Oenogenes fugalis (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) (previously known as Botys fugalis) ENDOTRICHINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Harvey Perkins, Gibraltar Pines, Australian Capital Territory)

This moth has rusty or dark brown wings, with two wiggly pale lines across each forewing, and a vague one across each hindwing. The costa and margin of each forewing is chequered.

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

The species is found in :

Tasmania.

male, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Botys fugalis,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXXXIV, fig. 37,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

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Further reading : .

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologisher Theil,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 4, and also Plate 134, fig. 37.

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(written 30 May 2014, updated 5 January 2019, 27 November 2020)