Oruza leucostigma Turner, 1945
Smiley moth
BOLETOBIINAE,   EREBIDAE
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Oruza leucostigma
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moths of this species are pale brown, with variable markings, usually including two vague dark zigzag lines across each wing.

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

The species is found in Australia in

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Oruza is thought to be the wrong genus for this species.


    Further reading :

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 117.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection. No. 2,
    Memoirs of the Queensland Museum,
    Volume 12, Part 3 (1945), p. 160.


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    (written 2 January 2014, updated 8 May 2019, 27 August 2020)