''Stygia australis'' is a species of

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of the family

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. It is found in

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and

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. "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". Now it is very little known. The larvae feed on the roots of ''

Echium italicum ''Echium italicum'', the Italian viper's bugloss, Lady Campbell weed,John H. Wiersema and Blanca León or pale bugloss, is a species of plant from the family Boraginaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin (especially in Italy, hence the name 'i ...

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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

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Moths described in 1804 Stygiinae Moths of Europe Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille {{Cossoidea-stub