Asura semivitrea (Rothschild, 1913) (previously known as Eutane semivitrea) LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

This species has adult moths are black with variable yellow spots. The hindwings are yellow with a broad black margin. The abdomen of both sexes has a yellow tuft on the tail. The male moth has a wingspan of about 1 cm. The female moth is larger with a wingspan near 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Lionel Walter Rothschild,
New Lithosianae,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 20, Part 1 (1913), p. 216, No. 296.

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(updated 29 August 2012, 17 August 2018)