Eschatura lemurias Meyrick, 1897
 (one synonym : Phloeophorba codonoptera, Turner, 1898)
XYLORYCTIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Eschatura lemurias
male
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species are dimorphic. The male has white forewings, each with a black and white spot in the middle. The female has brown forewings, each with a black and white spot in the middle. The hindwings are yellow. The forewing wingtips are pointed. The male has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms. The female is darker than the male, and has a wingspan of about 3.5 cms.

Eschatura lemurias
female
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The species occurs in

  • New Guinea,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

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

    Further reading :

    Ian McMillan,
    Eschatura, Xyloryctine Moths of Australia,
    Blog, Friday, July 30, 2010.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 218.

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    (updated 17 January 2011, 17 December 2016, 10 July 2019, 11 September 2020)