1. PaDIL Species Factsheet

Scientific Name: omoscopa (Meyrick, 1893) (: : Hieroxestinae)

Common Name Sugarcane Bud Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141488

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2.1. Details Specimen Contact: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory - [email protected] Author: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory Citation: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory (2011) Sugarcane Bud Moth(Opogona omoscopa) Updated on 4/15/2014 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0)

2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/141488

2.3. Facets Commodity Overview: Horticulture Commodity Type: Ginger, Pineapple, Rosaceous produce, Taro leaves, Taro tubers, Yam Distribution: 0 Unknown Status: NZ - Exotic Groups: Host Family: 0 Unknown Pest Status: 0 Unknown

2.4. Other Names Hieroxestis praematura Meyrick, 1909 Tineid Moth

2.5. Diagnostic Notes **Adult**

Wingspan 19-22 mm. Antennae approximately 0.8 length of forewing. Labial palpi fuscous dorsally, much paler, nearly white ventrally and mesally with 4-6 slender bristles arising laterally from distal half of second segment. Forewings predominantly dark fuscous except for a very small costal spot of stramineous near base and a larger stramineous spot slightly basad of tornus; apex slightly upturned; fringe mostly stramineous irrorated with fuscous; ventral surface of forewings shiny brownish fuscous. Hind wings, including fringe, stramineous to pale brown, becoming more whitish toward base.

**Larva**

Largest larva 21 mm. Head uniformly dark reddish brown except for pale stramineous area immediately posterior to ocellus. Notal plates and pinnacula dark reddish brown, very distinct on otherwise whitish integument. Meso- and metathorax with L2 arising on a separate pinnacula from LI and 3; tarsal claw simple, slightly curved, with a shallow notch on ventral edge at basal third. Abdomen: whitish in color with brownish pinnacula; integument of thorax and abdomen covered with numerous, minute spinules; crochets III-IV uniordinal, uniserial, and arranged in a complete ellipse composed of approximately 30 spines; smallest crochets situated laterally.

**Pupa**

Cremaster consists of a relatively large pair of slender hooks arising dorsally from segment IX+X; a pair of small tubercules also present ventrally on either side of anal groove.

**References**

- Davis, D.R. (1978). The North American Moths of the Genera _Phaeoses_, _Opogona_, and _Oinophila_, with a Discussion of their Supergeneric Affinities (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). _Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology_, 282: 1-39.

2.6. References - Davis, D.R. (1978). The North American Moths of the Genera _Phaeoses_, _Opogona_, and _Oinophila_, with a Discussion of their Supergeneric Affinities (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). _Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology_, 282: 1-39.

2.7. Web Links Caterpillars: especially Australian ones: http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/tine/omoscop.html 3. Diagnostic Images

LEP95 LEP95 Dorsal - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Headside - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP95 LEP95 Headtop - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Lateral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP95 LEP95 Ventral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Wing - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF 4. Other Images

LEP95 LEP95 Cocoon - Dorsal: Caroline Harding MAF Dorsal - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP95 LEP95 Headfront - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF Headside - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF

LEP95 LEP95 Lateral - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF Pro-legs - Larvae: Caroline Harding MAF

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