Hemonia micrommata

Hemonia micrommata (Turner, 1899)
(previously known as Eurodes micrommata)
LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA

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

This species has adult moths have dark brown forewings with yellow patches, particularly on each costa near the wingtip.

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

The hindwings are off-white. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

female, drawing by George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Arctiadć (Nolinć, Lithosianć) in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalćnć in the British Museum,
Volume 2 (1900), Plate XXXIV, Figure 21,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading: George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 2 (1900), p. 556, No. 1190 and also Volume 2 (1900), Plate 34, Figure 21.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Notes on Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 20, Part 1 (1899), p. 12.

Australian
Australian Butterflies

Australian
Australian Moths

(written 29 October 2014, updated 3 June 2018, 31 August 2019, 26 August 2021)