Lasioceros aroa Walker, 1904 (one synonym: Euprora tanyphylla Turner, 1929) NOTODONTINAE,   NOTODONTIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

male
(Photo: courtesy of Simon Ong, Kununurra, Western Australia)

The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings each with a scattering of brown dashes. In the males these form broken wavy transverse bands containing variable vague dark brown letter 'H'or abbreviations thereof. The prothorax of the males is dark brown.

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

In the females, the brown markings are paler, less extensive and less coherent.

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

The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the margins. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

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

The species occurs across south-east Asia, including

Queensland.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Simon Ong, Kununurra, Western Australia)

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Further reading :

George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 11 (1904), p. 381, No. 28.

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(written 1 September 2018, updated 8 October 2020)