![]() | (one synonym: Imaus aroa Bethune-Baker, 1904) LYMANTRIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moth is white except for a faint brown pattern of zig zag lines on the forewings, a buff tinge on the hind wings, and a brown body. The male moth has a wingspan of about 6 cms. The female moth has a wingspan of about 9 cms.
The species has been found in
and also in Australia in
Further reading :
George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 11 (1904), p. 409, No. 106.
George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 11 (1904), p. 409, No. 108.
Buck Richardson,
Mothology,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2008, p. 20.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 107.
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(updated 8 February 2010, 8 March 2021)