Arctornis lucens Mackey, 2016 LYMANTRIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species are white with a green abdomen. The moths have a black dot in the middle of each forewing. The moths have a wingspan of about 5 cms.

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

This species has formerly been confused with Arctornis submarginata which is a species found over much of Indonesia, and was thought to have a range extending into Australia. However in 2016 Peter Mackey determined that the Australian specimens actually belonged to several new separate species: Arctornis lucens, Arctornis queenslandica, and Arctornis ravenshoeae.

Arctornis lucens has been found only in Australia, and has been found in

Queensland.

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(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

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Further reading :

Peter Mackey,
Review of the Australian species of Arctornis Germar, 1810 (Lepidoptera:Erebidae:Lymantriinae),
Australian Entomologist,
Volume 43, Part 3 (2016), pp. 177-180.

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(written 18 January 2017, updated 27 June 2025)