Euproctis idonea Swinhoe, 1903
 LYMANTRIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


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

This adult moth varies from satin-white to pale yellow, with two broken curvey black or brown lines across each forewing. The abdomen is covered in golden hairs. The wingspan is about 3 cms.


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

The species is from

  • Queensland, and
  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

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

    Charles Swinhoe,
    A Revision of the Old World Lymantriidae in the National collection,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1903, Part 3, p. 401.

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    (created 22 April 2012, 4 June 2020)