Earias smaragdina Butler, 1886
 CHLOEPHORINAE,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA,  
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Earias smaragdina
(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The Caterpillars of this species feed on plants in MALVACEAE.

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

The adult moths have green forewings and white hindwings. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

The species has been found across northern Australia, including

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

    Further reading :

    Arthur G. Butler,
    Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from the Australian region,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1886, Part 4, p. 388, No. 11.

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 458.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 169.

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    (written 19 October 2014, updated 25 March 2020, 30 June 2021)