Thallarcha eremicola Pescott, 1951 LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Karakamia, Western Australia)

The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings, each with dark brown markings especially near the wing tip, and an irregular dark transverse band across the middle connecting to a dark line along part of the costa. The hindwings are pale yellow, each with a dark mark near the middle and at the wingtip.

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

The species has been found in :

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Richard Thomas Martin Pescott,
Lepidoptera of the Russell Grimwade expedition,
Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria,
Volume 17 (1951) p. 27.

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(updated 26 May 2010, 20 July 2019, 22 April 2020)