''Cadra perfasciata'' is a species of

snout moth The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family (biology), family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian Taxonomic rank, superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Cramb ...

in the tribe

Phycitini The Phycitini are a tribe of moths of the family Pyralidae. Genera Some significant species are also listed. * ''Abareia'' Whalley, 1970 * ''Acrobasis'' Zeller, 1839 * ''Addyme'' Walker, 1863 * ''Alberada'' Heinrich, 1939 (sometimes listed as a ...

. It was described by Marianne Horak in 1994. It is found in the southern arid areas of

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, on both sides of the

Nullarbor Plain The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: feminine of 'no' and 'tree') is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its no ...

(

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). The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is 14–17 mm for males and 15–18 mm for females.

References

Phycitini Moths described in 1994 Taxa named by Marianne Horak Moths of Australia Endemic fauna of Australia {{Phycitini-stub