Xerocrates proleuca
| Xerocrates proleuca | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Genus: | Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917 |
| Species: | X. proleuca |
| Binomial name | |
| Xerocrates proleuca (Meyrick, 1890) | |
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Xerocrates proleuca is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family, and the only species in the genus Xerocrates. It was described by Meyrick in 1890 and is found in Australia,[1] where it has been recorded from South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia.
The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are fuscous, towards the inner and hind margin sprinkled with whitish and dark fuscous and with a moderate sharply-marked snow-white streak along the costa from near the base to five-sixths, attenuated anteriorly to a point, beneath bordered by a broad ochreous-brown band from the base to three-fourths. There is an ill-defined small roundish dark fuscous spot beneath the middle of the disc, suffusedly margined with whitish, and a second, unmargined, in the disc at four-fifths. The hindwings are fuscous, rather darker posteriorly.[2]