(formerly known as Doratiphora brachyopa sic.) LIMACODIDAE, ZYGAENOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The moths have brown forewings, each with one or more wiggly dark transverse lines, and a dark circle near the middle. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new species of Australian Lepidoptera, with notes on synonymy,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), p. 10.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 28 July 2023)