Cacyparis melanolitha Turner, 1909
(one synonym: Cacyparis rectilineata)
CHLOEPHORINAENOCTUIDAE

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

(updated 22 February 2005)


male
Illustration 18, Plate CLXXXVI, Hampson 1903-1913,
(Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

The male adult moth of this species has brown with a yellow diagonal bar across each forewing. The hindwings are yellow with a dark margin. The females are yellow with a dark brown patch along the costa of each wing.

The species is found in

  • Queensland.

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