Damias pelochroa (Hampson, 1914)
Elusive Footman
 (formerly known as Caprimima pelochroa)
(also known as Chiriphe pelochroa)
LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Damias pelochroa
(Photo: courtesy of Steve Williams, Moths of Victoria: Part 2, 2nd edition)

The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each with dark brown markings including some variable vague dark transverse broken zigzag lines. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

Damias pelochroa
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria: Part 2, 2nd edition)

The species is found in:

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.

    Damias pelochroa
    male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Caprimima pelochroa    ,
    Catalogue of the Amatidæ and the Arctiadæ in the British Museum,
    Supplement, Volume 1 (1913), Plate XXXII, figure 16,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

    Further reading :

    George F. Hampson,
    Catalogue of the Amatidæ and the Arctiadæ in the British Museum,
    Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
    Supplement, Volume 1 (1914), p. 611, No. 607b, and also Plate 32, fig. 16.

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 2, 2nd edition,
    Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 22-23.

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    (written 21 December 2015, updated 21 April 2018)