Anthela virescens Turner, 1939 ANTHELINAE,   ANTHELIDAE,   BOMBYCOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Carol Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The male adult moths of this species often have green wings, but can have patterned brown wings with variable green patches. All the wings each have two small dark rings or spots, a straight pale-edged dark transverse line, and a submarginal arc of dark dots. The wingspan is about 4.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in in

New South Wales.

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

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 50 (1939), pp. 150-151.

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(written 22 June 2023, updated 13 July 2023)