(previously known as Mieza picta) LACTURIDAE, ZYGAENOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Mieza picta,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), plate CXXXVIII, fig. 49,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.
This adult moth has forewings which are black with bold yellow patches. The hindwings are a uniform scarlet.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologisher Theil,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 14, and also
Plate 138, Fig. 49.
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(written 4 June 2014)