Lactura rhodomochla Turner, 1942 LACTURIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Lockhart, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has forewings which are orange-brown, each crossed by two broad ragged yellow bands, and with a narrow yellow band along the margin. The hindwings are orange shading darker at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species occurs in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Fragmenta lepidopterologica,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 53 (1942), p. 95.

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(written 18 March 2019, updated 25 July 2022)