Lysimelia lenis (T.P. Lucas, 1898) (formerly known as Britha lenis) HYPENINAE,   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 moth has brown fore and hind wings each with one or more dark-edged pale submarginal arcs.

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The moth also has long labial palps which it holds porrect like a pair of tusks. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species is found in :

New South Wales.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

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Further reading :

Thomas P. Lucas,
Descriptions of Queensland Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 13 (1898), p. 77.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 164.

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(updated 3 August 2012, 16 August 2019, 5 April 2021)