Ecnomoctena brachyopa (Lower, 1897)
 (formerly known as Doratiphora brachyopa sic.)
LIMACODIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Ecnomoctena brachyopa
(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.

Ecnomoctena brachyopa
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

  • Western Australia, and
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    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.

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    (written 28 July 2023)