(formerly known as Comarchis mochlina) LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dianne Clarke,
Maleny, Queensland)
The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings, each with irregular dark brown margins, and crossed by two irregular dark brown stripes. The hindwings are off-white darkening towards the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in :
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. 505, No. 1083, and also
Plate 33, Figure 18.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Descriptions of New Lepidoptera from Queensland,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 23 (1896), pp. 20-21.
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(written 3 February 2015, updated 1 September 2019, 3 September 2021)