Chenuala mariannae (Zwick, unpublished) ANTHELINAE,   ANTHELIDAE,   BOMBYCOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

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

The adult moths are brown with various straight and zigzag lines across each wing, and two black-edged white spots separated by the third line near the middle of each forewing. The wing margins have a bulge in the middle. The female hindwings have an extended tornus.

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

The species has been found in:

northern Queensland.

The name Chenuala mariannae is a manuscript name on the specimen labels. A description has not been published in an approved journal.

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Further reading :

Andreas Zwick,
manuscript name on ANIC specimen labels,
unpublished.

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(written 17 February 2018)