Synemon sophia White, 1841 Sophia's Sun Moth (previously known as Hesperia sophia) CASTNIIDAE,   SESIOIDEA

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

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

The adult moths of this species have brown wings, with a substantial pattern of white markings on the forewings, and orange markings on the hindwings.

drawing by Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug,
Uber die Lepidoptereren-Gattung Synemon,
Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1848, Plate 1, fig. 2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

This species has been found in

Western Australia.

drawing by Arthur G. Butler,
Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum,
Part 1 (1877), Plate 3, fig. 6,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Gerstein Library, University of Toronto.

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Further reading:

Adam White,
Notes on some insects from King George's Sound,
in George Grey (ed.):
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia,
1841, p. 474.

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(written 3 February 2005, updated 6 May 2025)