Epicyrtica lichenophora (Lower, 1902)
Lichen Double-spot
 (formerly known as Caradrina lichenophora)
CALPINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Epicyrtica lichenophora
(Photo: courtesy of David Fischer, Black Mountain, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths of this species have greyish forewings, each with a black-outlined broad irregular dark band across the middle containing two large round black-outlined grey-centred circles. The hindwings are off-white, shading darker at the margins. The wing margins are slightly sinuous. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

Epicyrtica lichenophora
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 26 (1902), pp. 224-225.

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
    Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 30-31.

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    (written 11 May 2019, updated 11 September 2024)