Euryschema tricycla Turner, 1925 CALPINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMaster , Mount Mellum, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have a complex variable brown pattern on the forewings, each including a vague broad ragged dark transverse band, and sometimes a white oval near the middle. The hindwings are pale brown, shading darker toward the margins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMaster , Mount Mellum, Queensland)

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 49 (1925), p. 38.

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(written 30 December 2018, updated 11 September 2024)