Anticrates metreta (Turner, 1903)
(previously known as : Epopsia metreta)
LACTURIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

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

This adult moth has forewings which are brown each with a white band outlined in orange across the middle, and other white patches at the base, the tornus, and the apex. The hindwings are plain brown.

The species occurs in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

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


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    (updated 7 February 2010)