Teulisna bipunctata (Walker, 1866)
 (one synonym : Corcura mysolica Swinhoe, 1892)
LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with a dark mark on the costa. The hindwings are yellow. The hind margins of the wings are concave, so that in its natural resting position: the tornus of each hindwing projects beyond the forewing, and the tornus of each forewing projects across the hindwing. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

Teulisna bipunctata
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The species has been found in:

  • New Guinea,

    and in Australia in

  • Queensland.

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

    Further reading

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 21.

    Francis Walker,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 35, Supplement 5 (1866), p. 1884.

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    (updated 5 November 2011, 20 July 2019)