Sympis parkeri T.P. Lucas, 1894 EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

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

The adult of this species has forewings that each have an orange basal half, and a brown marginal half fading to white at the margins, which includes a red trident mark. The forewings each have a slightly hooked wingtip. Each hindwing is black at the margin fading to brown at the base, with a pale bar across the middle. The legs are white.

(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Mapleton, Queensland)

The wingspan is about 4 cms. The moth has unusual hairy flaps on its forelegs and its labial palps.

showing hairy foreleg flaps
(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Mapleton, Queensland)

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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

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Further reading :

Thomas P. Lucas,
Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera, with additional localities for known species,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 8 (1894), pp. 152-153.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 152.

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