Ecnomoctena sciobaphes Turner, 1941 LIMACODIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Rebecca Stroud, Bli Bli, Queensland)

The moths have patchy grey-brown forewings, each with a variable number of partial jagged dark lines, often including an angled line across the middle of the wing. The hindwings are plain paler brown. The male moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms. The female moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection,
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 12, Part 1 (1941), p. 52.

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(written 29 July 2023)