Teulisna chiloides

Teulisna chiloides Walker, 1862
(one synonym is Diastrophia dasypyga Felder, 1874)
LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA

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

Teulisna chiloides
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moth of this species is brown with two dark marks on each forewing costa The hind margins of the forewings are recurved. The hindwings are yellow. The head and thorax are brown, and the abdomen is yellow terminating in a black tuft of scales. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

drawing by Charles Swinhoe, listed as Corcura torta,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Part 1: Sphinges and Bombyces (1892), Plate III, fig. 10,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in :

Borneo,

Malaysia,

and in

Australia.

male, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Diastrophia dasypyga,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (1874), Tafel CVI, Fig. 13,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Part 4-5, Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1874), p. 14, and also Plate 106, fig. 13.

Charles Swinhoe,
Sphinges and Bombyces,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Clarendon Press, Part 1 (1892), p. 4,, and also Plate 3, fig. 10.

Francis Walker,
On Heterocerous Lepidoptera at Sarawak,
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,
Volume 6 (1862), pp. 109-110, No. 99.

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(written 26 March 2015, updated 31 August 2019)