Xerocrates
Xerocrates proleuca is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae, 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.
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| Genus: | Xerocrates Meyrick, 1917 |
| Species: | X. proleuca |
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| Xerocrates proleuca (Meyrick, 1890) | |
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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]