Rhapsa eretmophora Turner, 1932, Rounded Rhapsa CATOCALINI,   EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, with a pattern including a dark-edged white dot, and a black-edged orange kidney-shaped spot, and a dark serrated, sometimes spotted, submarginal arc. The hindwings are pale brown and crossed by two faint dark serrated arcs. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The moths have long hairy labial palps, which they often project straight in front of the head.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The species has been found in :

Tasmania.

close-up of head
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

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Further reading :

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 12-13.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 56 (1932), p. 180.

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(written 9 May 2019, updated 22 September 2019, 17 August 2021)