Targalla subocellata (Walker, 1863)
(previously known as Eutelia subocellata)
EUTELIINAE,   EUTELIIDAE,   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 moths of this species have brown wings, with a paler marginal half to each forewing both halves including a variety of motifs. The hindwings are brown with a series of vague submarginal bands and dark veins. The wings have scalloped edges. In its natural posture: the moth has its abdomen tip lifted high off the ground, and the forewing wingtips held downwards against the ground. The wingspan is about 3 cms.


(Photo: courtesy of Aila Keto, Springbrook, Queensland)

This species occurs in

  • Borneo,
  • Hong Kong,
  • Malaysia,
  • New Guinea,
  • Taiwan,
  • Thailand,

    and also in Australia in

  • Queensland.


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


    Further reading :

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 160.

    Francis Walker,
    Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidopterous Insects collected at Sarawak, in Borneo, by Mr. A. Wallace, with descriptions of new species.,
    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London,
    Volume 7 (1863), pp. 67-68., No. 340.


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    (updated 29 June 2011, 16 November 2019)