LASIOCAMPINAE, LASIOCAMPIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of Axel Hausmann and the
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have grey forewings, each with a vague pale spot near the middle The hindwings are grey-brown. The wing margins are chequered.
The females have a wingspan of about 6 cms.
The male moths have straighter wing margins than the female, and more feathery antennae, and have a wingspan of about 4 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Lasiocampidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 49 (1924), p. 416, No. 29.
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(written 18 September 2022)