Chrysomesia lophoptera (Turner, 1940) (formerly known as Heterallactis lophoptera) LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of David Tng, Danbulla, Queensland)

The adult female moths of this species have yellow forewings, each with a very broad patchy pale brown band along the margin. The hindwings are plain pale brown with a broad silvery streak along part of the costa. The head is yellow, and the rest of the body pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of David Tng, Danbulla, Queensland)

The male moths have a brown streak along the costa of each forewing, and a yellow tuft hairs on the tip of the abdomen.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Dave Britton, of the Australian Museum, and the Australian National Insect Collection)

The species is found in Australia in

Queensland.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Dave Britton, of the Australian Museum, and the Australian National Insect Collection)

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
A revision of the Australian Arctiidae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 51 (1940), p. 117, No. 67.

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(written 11 June 2017, updated 29 January 2023)