Parilyrgis concolor (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
 (one synonym: Ilyrgodes intacta Hampson, 1926)
HYPENINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Parilyrgis concolor
(Photo: courtesy of Nikolas Haass, Woolloongabba, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with a dark broad irregular white-outlined central band, and a faint white submarginal zigzag line. The hindwings are brown with vague dark markings. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species occurs in

  • New Guinea,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
    New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 15 (1908), p. 205, No. 103.

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    (written 18 March 2022)