Eublemma glaucochroa Turner, 1902 BOLETOBIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

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

The adult moth of this species has forewings with brown blobs on a white background. In its natural posture, there is a tuft of raised scales behind the thorax. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species is found in Australia in

Queensland.

This species needs to be assigned to a new genus.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New genera and species of Lepidoptera belonging to the family Noctuidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 27 (1902), p. 116.

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(written 1 November 2014, updated 8 November 2025)