Porela amathodes Turner, 1924 Western Porela LASIOCAMPINAE,   LASIOCAMPIDAE,   BOMBYCOIDEA

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

male
(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, Western Australia)

This moth has grey forewings, each with markings including a complex brown stripe along the costa, an irregular outlined white trident at the base, and a narrow outlined white zigzag submarginal band. The hindwings are grey with a vague dark submarginal arc ending in a dark spot at the tornus. The veins of all the wings are brown and end in a dark spot. The grey scales on the wings fall off very easily leaving those areas of the wings translucent.

female
(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, Western Australia)

The females have thread-like antennae, and are rather bigger than the males, which have feathery antennae.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, Western Australia)

The species has been found in:

Western Australia.

underside, male
(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, Western Australia)

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Lasiocampidae.,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 49 (1924), pp. 414-415, No. 25.

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(written 25 April 2020, updated 18 March 2021, 1 September 2022)