(formerly known as Garudinia trifasciata) LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dominic Funnell,
Lockhart, Queensland)
The adult moths of this species have yellow forewings, each crossed by three dark-edged wide purplish-brown bands. The hindwings are off-white, darkening toward the wingtips. The hindwing margins are slightly doubly concave. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.
The species is found in
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
Lionel Walter Rothschild,
New Lithosianae,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 19 (1912), p. 234, No. 113.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 2 January 2023)