Lactura leucophthalma (Meyrick, 1907)
(previously known as Mieza leucophthalma)
LACTURIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Lactura leucophthalma
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

This adult moth has forewings which are rusty red with yellow edges, and have a large pale blotch in the middle. The hind wings are a uniform silky orange. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species occurs in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 299.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 32 (1907), p. 89, No. 147.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 99.

    Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
    A Guide to Australian Moths, CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 111.


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    (updated 1 November 2010, updated 26 May 2018)