Pollanisus cyanota (Meyrick, 1886)
 (previously known as Procris cyanota)
PROCRIDINAE,   ZYGAENIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Pollanisus cyanota
(Photo : courtesy of Nick Monaghan)

The adult moth of this species is black, with a metallic green abdomen. The wingspan is about 1.3 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Drawing by Embrik Strand    ,
    Tascina-Isocrambia, Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges,
    in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
    Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), Plate 1, fig h7,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

    Further Reading:

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 1, Part 3 (1886), p. 793, No. 152.

    Embrik Strand,
    Tascina-Isocrambia, Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges,
    in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
    Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag,
    Volume 10, (1933), Plate 1, fig h7.

    Gerhard M. Tarmann,
    Zygaenid moths of Australia,
    CSIRO Publishing 2004, pp. 59, 63, 66-67, 104-105, 115, 124, 131, pl. 30.

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    (updated 27 January 2012, 11 July 2026)