Nola tornotis (Meyrick, 1888)
 (previously known as Sorocostia tornotis)
NOLINAE,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Nola tornotis
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has off-white forewings with a variable number of white-edged black broken zig-zag lines of various sizes. The hindwings are pale brown, fading to white at the base. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

  • New Guinea,

    and also in Australia in:

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

    Nola tornotis
    male, drawing by George F. Hampson,
    Catalogue of the Arctiadæ (Nolinæ, Lithosianæ) in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Volume II (1900), Plate XIX, fig. 9,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

    Further reading:

    George F. Hampson,
    Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
    Volume 2 (1900), pp. 40-41, No. 81, and also Plate 19, fig. 9.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 2, Part 4 (1888), pp. 923-924.

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    (written 2 November 2014, updated 28 January 2015, 14 August 2019, 9 February 2021)