Lepista pulverulenta (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
(one synonym : Lepista pulverea Hampson, 1914)
LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each with a vague pale subcostal stripe. The hindwings are pale yellow. The wingspan is about 2.8 cms.

The species has been found in :

  • Queensland.


    Further reading:

    George Francis Hampson,
    Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the British Museum,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
    Supplement 1 (1914), p. 462, No. 180a.

    Thomas P. Lucas,
    On Queensland and other Australian macro-lepidoptera, with localities, and descriptions of new species,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 4, Part 4 (1890), p. 1069.


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    (written 12 June 2019)