About Xyleutes persona Le Guillou, 1841
This description covers the moth Xyleutes persona, first described by Le Guillou in 1841. For males: the head and abdomen are black; the thorax is covered in erect white scales; the forewings are blackish, with a net-like reticulated pattern that is not tightly spaced; the inner marginal area holds irregular, conjoined white patches; white patches sit on the costa towards the wing apex; a black streak runs beyond the wing cell; the hindwings are blackish with black reticulations, and have a white patch on the outer margin towards the anal angle. In females, a large white patch sometimes develops at the center of the forewing costa, and the white patches towards the apex are more developed than in males. The larvae of Xyleutes persona bore into Casuarina trees, and have also been recorded feeding on Durio and Premna species.
