![]() | (previously known as Mieza mactata) LACTURIDAE, ZYGAENOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dominic Funnell,
Thursday Island, Queensland)
This adult moth has forewings which are yellow with a network of scarlet arcs and lines. The hindwings are a uniform scarlet.
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. 14, and also
Plate 139, fig. 44.
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(written 4 June 2014, updated 26 May 2018, 25 July 2022)