Dura marginepunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1904)
 (one synonym: Imaus pusilla Strand, 1923)
LYMANTRIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Dura marginepunctata
(Photo: courtesy of Rob Reed, Julatten, Queensland)

The adult moth is off-white, with forewings that each have a complex network of grey lines and a row of dark dots around the edges. Some specimens have a dark dot in the middle of the forewing. The hindwings are plain grey. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

This species has been found in

  • New Guinea,

    as well as in

  • Queensland

    Further reading :

    George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
    New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 11 (1904), p. 410, No. 110, and also Plate 6, fig. 13.

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    (updated 1 October 2002, 22 June 2026)