Euproctis limbalis (Herrich-Schaffer, 1855) Bordered Browntail Moth (also known as Urocoma limbalis) LYMANTRIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth has a dark brown body, and brown wings. The wings each have a scalloped band of white with a brown fringe along the margin.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Steven Dodge, Sanctuary Point, New South Wales)

The wingspan is about 4 cms.

female
(Specimen: courtesy of the The Australian Museum)

The underside is dark brown, with no pale marginal bands under the forewings, and a broader pale marginal band under the hindwings.

male, underside
(Photo: courtesy of Steven Dodge, Sanctuary Point, New South Wales)

The species is found in south-eastern Australia, including:

Victoria.

drawing by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, listed as Porthesia limbalis,
Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropäischer Schmetterlinge,
Verzeichniss der in diesem Werke gelieferten Arten nach Reihenfolge ihrer Veroffentlichung,
Series I, Volume 1, Part 3 (1855), Plate 91, fig. 389,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading :

Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer,
Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropäischer Schmetterlinge,
Verzeichniss der in diesem Werke gelieferten Arten nach Reihenfolge ihrer Veroffentlichung,
Series I, Volume 1, Part 3 (1855), p. 70, and also Plate 91, fig. 389.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria: part 2,
Tiger Moths and their Allies - Noctuoidea (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 16-19.

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(updated 13 May 2011, 19 October 2018, 10 March 2021)