Oruza lithochroma Turner, 1929 BOLETOBIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Andrew Parker, Darwin, Northern Territory)

The adult moth has greyish-orange forewings, each with jagged brown bands across the base, the middle, and the margin. The hindwings are brown. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Andrew Parker, Darwin, Northern Territory)

This species has been found in

Queensland.

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

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

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 53 (1929), p. 298.

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(written 8 May 2019, updated 9 October 2025)