LIMACODIDAE, ZYGAENOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have dark brown forewings. The hindwings are yellow shading to brown at the costa. The head and thorax are dark brown, and the abdomen is yellow with a dark brown tip. For the females, the hindwing has a larger yellow area. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species occurs in
and in Australia in
Further reading :
George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 11 (1904), pp. 384-385, No. 38, and also
Plate 5, fig. 48.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 1 August 2023)