Termessa conographa (Meyrick, 1886) (formerly known as Castulo conographa) LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has dark brown forewings, each with a broad pale yellow edge along the costa and along the margin. The hindwings are yellow with a black band along each margin. The forewings each have a hooked wingtip. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species is found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 18.5, p. 436.

Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 1, Part 3 (1886), p. 714-715, No. 38.

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(written 7 October 2014, updated 20 July 2019)