Threnosia myochroa Turner, 1940
Heath Footman
 LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Threnosia myochroa
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 2)

The moths of this species have brown forewings, each with a vague zigzag submarginal band. The hindwings are a uniform paler brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

Threnosia myochroa
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 2)

The species has been found in

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory, and
  • Victoria.

    Further reading:

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 2,
    Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 26-27.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    A revision of the Australian Arctiidae (Lepidoptera),
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
    Volume 51 (1940), p. 63, No. 22.

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    (written 12 July 2013, updated 20 December 2020)