(previously known as Cydrastis carycina) STRIGLININAE, THYRIDIDAE, THYRIDOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson,
Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moths of this species are orange, with the wings covered in a speckling of round pale spots between wandering brown blotchy lines. The wingsppan is about 2.5 cms.
The species is found in Australia in
Further reading :
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 210.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 27 (1915), p. 27.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 125.
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(updated 27 May 2012, 31 August 2020)