Tetracona pictalis (Warren, 1896) (previously known as : Tetracona pictalis) SPILOMELINAE,   CRAMBIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, listed as Agrotera pictalis
Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species is very colourful. It is pale yellow with brilliant red and blue patches on the wing margins. The antennae and the abdomen are rather long, and the hindwings rather short. The moth has a wingspan of about 3 cms. The males and females are very similar in appearance.

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

The species is found in the rainforest in Australia in:

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 355.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 32.

William Warren,
New Genera and Species of Pyralidae, Thyrididae, and Epiplemidae,
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
6th Series, Part 16 (1895), pp. 139-140.

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(updated 16 May 2008, 6 August 2023)