Symphyta oxygramma (Lower, 1902) (formerly known as Bombyx oxygramma) LASIOCAMPINAE,   LASIOCAMPIDAE,   BOMBYCOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Christina Suttner, Hale, Northern Territory)

The adult male moths of this speciess have brown or grey forewings, each with a dark spot near the middle, narrow black veins in white stripes extending from near the base to the margin, a submarginal dark zigzag line, and some yellowish tinting near the base. The hindwings are white with chequered margins. The male moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Oswald Bertram Lower,
Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 26 (1902), p. 213.

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(written 13 May 2020, updated 1 January 2023)