(one synonym : Teratopora irregularis Hampson, 1900) LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each with a paler basal half, and a darker marginal half. The hindwings are plain pale yellowish brown, and have angular margins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 2 (1900), p. 271, No. 567 and fig. 191
A. Jefferis Turner,
Notes of Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 23 (1899), p. 10.
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(written 13 June 2019)