Microstola ammoscia Lower, 1920 LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of David Rentz, Kuranda, Queensland)

This a drab little moth is pale brown except for two dark spots on each forewing. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has also been caught in

Queensland.

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Further reading

Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 44 (1920), p. 68.

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(updated 16 March 2011, 20 July 2019)