Lambula obliquilinea Hampson, 1900) LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Lamington National Park, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each often crossed by an oblique dark brown line, or with a vague dark patch on the hind margin. The hindwings are plain paler brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

male, drawing by George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Arctiadæ (Nolinæ, Lithosianæ) in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Volume II (1900), Plate XXXV, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in :

New South Wales.

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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. 558, No. 173a, and also Plate 35, fig. 1.

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(written 8 February 2015, updated 15 June 2019, 24 August 2021)