Stachyneura sceliphrodes

Description

Stachyneura sceliphrodes is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1925. It is found in Queensland, Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea. The wingspan is 35–40 mm. The forewings are pale greyish-ochreous with snow-white reflections, the veins white sprinkled dark red-brown or sometimes suffused reddish, a snow-white costal streak broad at the base and narrowed to a point at about three-fourths. The cell and dorsal area are more or less suffused reddish or brown, with thick oblique streaks of blackish or dark red-brown irroration from the dorsum at one-third and beyond the middle, and a spot towards the tornus, the spaces between these sometimes suffused white. There is a terminal series of blackish or dark red-brown triangular dots. The hindwings are light greyish-ochreous.