Anthela decolor Turner, 1939 ANTHELINAE,   ANTHELIDAE,   BOMBYCOIDEA

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

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

The male adult moths of this species have pale grey or brown and yellow wings, with one or more dark subcostal dots on each wing, and vague wavy lines and bands across the wings. The females are similar but darker. The wingspan is about 4.5 cms.

The species occurs in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 50 (1939), p. 150.

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(written 3 July 2023)