Ecnomoctena hemitoma Turner, 1926 LIMACODIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA

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

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

The moths have patchy brown forewings, each with a broad pale jagged line from the middle of the hind margin to the cell. The hindwings are plain paler brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

The species has been found in

Northern Territory.

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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. 426, No. 22.

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(written 29 July 2023)