Myrtartona coronias (Meyrick, 1886)
 (formerly known as Procris coronias)
PROCRIDINAE,   ZYGAENIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Myrtartona coronias
(Photo: courtesy of Judith Roach, at Namadgi National Park, Australian Capital Territory)

This adult moth is black with a blue sheen. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania, and
  • South Australia.


    Drawing by Embrik Strand    ,
    Tascina-Isocrambia, Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges,
    in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
    Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), Plate 1, fig h5,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

    Further Reading:

    Embrik Strand,
    Tascina-Isocrambia, Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges,
    in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
    Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag,
    Volume 10, (1933), Plate 1, fig h5.

    Gerhard M. Tarmann,
    Zygaenid moths of Australia,
    CSIRO Publishing 2004, p. 170.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera I,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 1, Part 3 (1886), p. 792, No. 150.

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    (updated 15 June 2009, 7 April 2026)