Heterallactis microchrysa Turner, 1940 LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

This species has adult moths with forewings that are yellow with two broad brown bands. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in :

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of the Australian Arctiidae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 51 (1940), p. 118, No. 199.

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(updated 18 August 2009, 17 July 2019)