Arrade leucocosmalis (Walker, 1863) (one synonym : Larassa condecoralis Walker, 1865) Garden Snout HYPENINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Melbourne, Victoria)

The adult moth has patchy brown forewings, each with some white patches, and three white zig-zag lines. The hindwings are yellow, with a brown splodge on the costa of each hindwing. The forewings have a cusp at the middle of the margin. The thorax is white.

(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Melbourne, Victoria)

In its natural posture: the moth displays two pairs of tufts of scales: one pair halfway along the forewing hindmargins, and one pair at the tornuses. The forelegs are white, with dense black hairs covering the femurs. The wingspan is up to 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

Victoria.

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(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

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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. 6-7, 8-9.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 27 (1863), p. 117, No. 1.

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