Dasychiroides pratti Bethune-Baker, 1904 LYMANTRIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of David Fischer, Mission Beach, Queensland)

The adult moth has brown and white forewings, plain brown hind wings, and a brown body. The male moth has a wingspan of about 4 cms. The female wingspan is about 7 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the The Australian Museum)

The species occurs in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 11 (1904), p. 406, No. 100, and also Plate 6, fig. 7.

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(updated 13 October 2001, 6 January 2022)