Euproctis hymnolis Turner, 1921
 LYMANTRIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

This adult moth has pale orange wings with even paler veins. Each forewing has a dark dumbbell-shaped mark near the middle. The wingspan is about 4 cms.


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

This species has been caught in

  • Papua

    and in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 108.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera - Liparidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 45, Part 4 (1921), p. 485, No. 28.

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    (updated 16 July 2008, 1 October 2019)