Comana euryparoa (Turner, 1926)
(formerly known as Susica euryparoa)
LIMACODIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moth of this species has forewings that are chestnut brown, each divided by diagonal boundaries into several sections of slightly different shades. The hindwings are plain chestnut brown with a slighly paler middle. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

The species has been caught in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Drepanidae, Limacodidae, Zygaenidae.,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 51 (1926), p. 438, No. 53.


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    (written 2 January 2019)