Scopelodes nitens Bethune-Baker, 1904 LIMACODIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA

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

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

The adult moths of this species have grey forewings, each with a number of yellow-edged dark transverse dashes. The hindwings are yellow shading to brown at the costa. The head and thorax are grey, and the abdomen is yellow with a pale tip. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

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

The species occurs in

Queensland.

Photo: George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
Novitates Zoologicae, Volume 11 (1904), Plate V, fig. 51,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

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Further reading :

George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 11 (1904), p. 385, No. 39, and also Plate 5, fig. 51.

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(written 2 August 2023)