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 has been found in

Queensland.

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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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