PROCRIDINAE, ZYGAENIDAE, ZYGAENOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult male moth of this species has black wings. The head is black with a shiny gold collar. The thorax is black, and the abdomen is black with a gold iridescence. The antennae are pectinated. The wingspan of the male is about 1.8 cms.
The female is black, with a shiny gold collar, and a bunch of gold hairs on the tip of the abdomen. The female has thread-like antennae. The wingspan of the female is about 1.6 cms.
The species has been found in:
Further Reading:
Gerhard M. Tarmann,
Zygaenid moths of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing 2004, pp. 59, 66-67, 86, 88-89, 92, 94, 96, 98-99, 101, 122-123, 130, pl. 21.
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(written 16 December 2018)