(one synonym: Cyptasia egregiella Walker, 1866) LACTURIDAE, ZYGAENOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Peter Hendry,
Gin Gin, Queensland)
This adult moth has off-white forewings each with brown patches, brown zigzag stripes, and one or more narrow scarlet streaks. The hindwings are a uniform orange. The head and abdomen are scarlet. The thorax is brown with white patches.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologisher Theil,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 13, and also
Plate 138, fig. 53.
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(written 4 June 2014, updated 26 May 2018, 16 March 2019, 25 July 2022)