Ozarba chrysaspis

Ozarba chrysaspis (Meyrick, 1891)
Bright Zarb
(one synonym : Metachrostis epichroma Turner, 1902)
ACONTIINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Ozarba chrysaspis
(Photo: courtesy of Trevor Jinks, North Burnett, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have forewings that have a pale brown area at the base, and an orange-brown area at the margin, the areas separated by a broad irregular black band.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The hindwings are orange-brown with a broad dark margin. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Melba, Australian Capital Territory)

The species is found over much of Australia, including:

Western Australia,

Northern Territory,

Queensland,

New South Wales,

Australian Capital Territory, and

South Australia.

male, drawing by George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalćnć in the British Museum,
Noctuidć, Volume X (1910), Plate CLX, fig. 20,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

Further reading :

George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 10 (1910), p. 405, No. 5607, and also Plate 160, fig. 20.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 24-25, 26-27.

Edward Meyrick,
Description of New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 14 (1891), p. 197.

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(updated 9 August 2011, 8 September 2019, 24 August 2020, 12 March 2021, 1 February 2022)