| Adorned Footman (also known as Thallarcha phaedropa Meyrick, 1886) LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
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| Adorned Footman (also known as Thallarcha phaedropa Meyrick, 1886) LITHOSIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
The male moths of this species have black forewings, each crossed by one narrow and one broad white band.
The females have more complex variable white markings on the forewings.
The hindwings of both sexes are yellow with a large black mark across each wingtip. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.
The species occurs in:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 18.18, p. 437.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 2,
Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 24-25.
Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera I,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 1, Part 3 (1886), pp. 736-737, No. 70.
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(updated 29 June 2010, 25 October 2024)