Lactura erythocera (R.Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
(one synonym: Cyptasia egregiella Walker, 1866)
LACTURIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Lactura erythocera
(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.

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

The species has been found in

  • Queensland.

    Lactura erythocera
    female, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Mieza erythocera
    ,
    Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
    Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), plate CXXXVIII, fig. 53,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.


    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)