Comana inexpectata (Hering, 1931) LIMACODIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Claire Brooks, Mount Bundey, Northern Territory)

The adult moth of this species has forewings that are chestnut brown, each with an arc of pale spots around the margin. The hindwings are brown, shading paler along the costa, and shading darker along the hind margin. The moths have a wingspan of about 3.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Axel Hausmann, SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen)

The species has been found in

Northern Territory.

drawing by Erich Martin Hering,
Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region, Plate 88, Fig. g5,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Volume 10 (1933),
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

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Further reading :

Erich Martin Hering,
Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Volume 10 (1933), p. 783, and also Plate 86, Fig. g5.

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(written 2 January 2019, updated 17 May 2024)