Entomogramma torsa Guenée, 1852 Synonyms:- (Entomogramma squamicornis R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) (Entomogramma vanua R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) CATOCALINI,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of John Ibis, Chiang Dao, Thailand)

The adult moth has brown forewings, each having three dark angled transverse lines, a variable length yellow-edged dark subcostal line, two arcs of pointed dots, and a central black-outlined vaguely oval spot. The hindwings are pale brown, each having several dark wavy transverse lines, and two arcs of pointed dots. The wingspan is up to 6 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Queensland.

male, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Entomogramma squamicornis,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (1874), Tafel CXV, Fig. 3,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

male, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Entomogramma vanua,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (1874), Tafel CXV, Fig. 4,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

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Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Part 9, Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 8, and also Plate 115, figs. 3 & 4.

Achille Guenée,
Hypopyridae,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 7 (1852), pp. 204-205, No. 1605.

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(written 27 May 2019, updated 13 September 2024)