Eublemma lozostropha Turner, 1902
(erroneously : Eublemma loxostropha)
BOLETOBIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Eublemma lozostropha
(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Weipa, Queensland)

The adult moth has brown forewings, each with a transverse white band with one wavy edge and one straight edge. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

Eublemma lozostropha
male, drawing by George Francis Hampson,

Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume X (1910), Plate CLIII, fig. 2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

This species has been found in

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.


    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. 118.


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    (updated 26 September 2011, 12 September 2022)