| LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have yellow forewings, each crossed by two dark-edged wide purplish-brown bands. The hindwings are off-white, darkening toward the wingtips. The hindwing margins are slightly doubly concave. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.
The species is found in
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 15 (1908), p. 195, No. 71.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 12 June 2019, updated 2 January 2023)