Rivula niphodesma Meyrick, 1891
 (one synonym : Rivula proleuca Holland, 1900)
RIVULINAE
EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Rivula niphodesma
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moths of this species have orange-brown forewings each with a broad white line along the costa and the margin, and with black dots near the wing-tip and the tornus. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the margins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species is found in Australia in

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Description of New Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 14 (1891), pp. 197-198.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 166.

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    (written 18 May 2016)