| formerly known as Sitina albicans LASIOCAMPINAE, LASIOCAMPIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female, drawing by Charles Swinhoe, listed as Sitina albicans,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera
in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Part 1: Sphinges and Bombyces (1892), Plate VI, Fig. 10,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.
The adult female moths of this species have patchy brown, forewings, each with two transverse white zigzag lines, and with a black patch on the hind margin. The hindwings are paler with a dark submarginal band. The thorax of the females is covered in white scales. The males are black with transparent wings with dark brown veins.
The species occurs in eastern Australia, including
Further reading :
Charles Swinhoe,
Sphinges and Bombyces,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera
in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Clarendon Press, Part 1 (1892), p. 268, No. 1245, and also
Plate 6, Fig. 10.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  imagoes |  caterpillar |
(updated 28 March 2009)