Insects
Moths (Lepidoptera)
Tiger moths (Arctiinae)
Sighting 4575218

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Identification history

Threnosia (genus) 16 Jun 2025 WendyEM
Lepista pulverulenta 12 Jun 2024 donhe
Hoplostega ochroma 11 Jun 2024 Hejor1

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11 comments

ibaird wrote:
   11 Jun 2024
I'm not sure this matches H. ochroma,
ibaird wrote:
   11 Jun 2024
Lambula (genus)? Lithosiini ?
donhe wrote:
   11 Jun 2024
No obvious upturned labial palps, so not Hoplostega. I do not see any Lambula species with a pale subcostal forewing stripe at
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/TaxBrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=77189
Lepista pulverulenta?
ibaird wrote:
   12 Jun 2024
I couldn't find a match in Lithosiini either but the forewing shape from above would suggest such.
ibaird wrote:
   13 Jun 2024
No white costa mark in Lepista pulverulenta I suggest.
donhe wrote:
   14 Jun 2024
Subcostal. Faint, but I think I see one on David's photo on AFD.
ibaird wrote:
   14 Jun 2024
OK, you've almost convinced me, but this photo from life is very dark grey, quite unlike the set specimen on AFD.
donhe wrote:
   17 Jun 2024
Lucas describes the forewings as "ochreous - brown". Maybe the shade in the photo is a lighting artefact, or it is a dark specimen. The darkness of the skin is often variable within a species.
Hejor1 wrote:
   17 Jun 2024
@donhe the lighting was quite bad for this one, but my impression was that it was more grey than brown.
ibaird wrote:
   21 Jun 2025
Threnosia hypopolia?
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/05465ec6-bcfc-4f8c-9892-f9b35a62c9bc#gallery
WendyEM wrote:
   21 Jun 2025
I am not sure that Threnosia hypopolia has the strong white band along the costa. The faded type, from Museums Victoria, on ALA and the digitally adjusted copy of the image on Moths of Victoria Part 2 (2nd Ed.) CD have the wide white strip.

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