Anticrates metreta (Turner, 1903)
 (previously known as Epopsia metreta)
LACTURIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Anticrates metreta
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

This adult moth has forewings which are brown each with a pale yellow band outlined in orange across the middle, and other pale yellow patches at the base, the tornus, and the apex. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species occurs in

  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 28.18, p. 298.

    Peter Hendry,
    Gems of the North
    Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
    Metamorphosis Australia,
    Issue 52 (March 2009), pp.19-21.

    Graham McDonald,
    Moths of Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) National Park,
    Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
    Metamorphosis Australia,
    Issue 76 (March 2015), pp. 10-11, fig.7.

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

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 28 (1903), p. 90.

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    (updated 7 February 2010, 13 August 2024)