Torqueola monophaes (Lower, 1902) (formerly known as Pionea monophaes) SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Carol & Trevor Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species have forewings which can be various shades of plain brown, but each forewing has a faint dark mark in the cell. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the margins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Carol & Trevor Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The species has been found in :

New South Wales.

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

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 26 (1901), p. 669.

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(written 9 January 2026))