Polyterpnes polyrrhoda Turner, 1932 CHRYSAUGINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Simon Ong, Durack, Western Australia)

The adult moths of this species have red forewings each with variable grey and off-white patches, and an arc of diminishing black-edged white spots by the margin. The hindwings are off-white with red veins and edges. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

This species has been found in

Queensland.

Some taxonomists put this species in ODONTIINAE.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 56 (1932), p. 189.

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(updated 17 March 2012)