Stygia australis explained

Stygia australis is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain.^[1] "This species is common in Southern Europe. It expands about an inch. The head and thorax are brownish-yellow, and so are the antennae. The abdomen is elongated, blue-black in colour with a small anal tuft. The fore-wings are narrow, brownish in the male, with greyish-white markings, and the hind-wings are rounded, blue-black, with a large white spot in the centre. In the female the fore-wings are reddish-yellow, varied with brownish, and the hind-wings are coloured as in the male. The larva, which is smooth and whitish, with the head and thoracic segments yellowish, lives in the roots and stalks of Echium italicum".^[2] Now it is very little known.

The larvae feed on the roots of Echium italicum.^[3] in hot places.

References

• Villiers (Adrien-Prudent de), 1827.- Note sur trois Lépidoptères inédits ou peu connus de la France méridionale. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Paris, 5 : 471-485, 1 pl. grav. (3 fig.). online
• Daniel (Franz), 1955.- Monographie der Cossidae I. (Lep. Het.) : Kritische Beurteilung der bisher dem Genus Stygia zugeteilten Arten. Mitteilungen der münchner entomologischen Gesellschaft, München, 44 - 45 : 159 - 181. online
• Guilloton (Jean-Alain), 2019.- Une heureuse capture à Saint-Martin-de-Crau (Bouches-du-Rhône) : Stygia australis (Latreille, 1803) (Lepidoptera Cossidae). Alexanor, 29 (1), 2019 : 31 - 49.

External links

• Lepiforum.de

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213644/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=439909 Fauna Europaea
2. [William Forsell Kirby]
3. http://www.lepinet.fr/especes/nation/lep/index.php?id=02130&e=l Les Carnets du Lépidoptériste Français