Thallarcha lechrioleuca Turner, 1940 LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, West Pingelly, Western Australia)

The moths of this species have off-white forewings, each with a variety of black spots and squiggles, as well as a black-edged jagged grey band across the middle sometimes joined to a similar but variable band along the margin. The hindwings are pale yellow, each with a dark mark near the middle, and a dark area around the wing-tip. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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Further reading:

A. Jefferis Turner,
A revision of the Australian Arctiidae (Lepidoptera),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 51 (1940), p. 91, No. 114.

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(written 11 December 2021)