Eloasa brevipennis (Hering, 1931) (formerly known as Parasa brevipennis) LIMACODIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Mission River, Queensland)

The moths have patchy brown forewings, sometimes each with a diagonal white line across the middle. The hindwings are pale brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Queensland.

drawing by Erich Martin Hering, listed as Parasa brevipennis,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region, Plate 87, Fig. c1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

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Further reading :

Erich Martin Hering,
Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Volume 10 (1933), p. 697, and also Plate 87, Fig. c1.

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(written 29 October 2018, updated 18 December 2022)