Onceropyga pulchra Tarmann, 2005 PROCRIDINAE,   ZYGAENIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Tony Bush, Bongil Bongil National Park, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species are dark brown, with a vague dark-edged pale spot near the middle of each forewing. The abdomen is golden. The the males and females have a wingspan of about 1.6 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

New South Wales.

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Further Reading:

Gerhard M. Tarmann,
Zygaenid moths of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing 2004, pp. 59, 134-137, 175-176, pl. 34.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic and other notes,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 30 (1906), p. 137.

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(written 25 December 2018, updated 26 June 2024)