Euproctis urbis Strand, 1933
 LYMANTRIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Carol & Trevor Deane, Tallowwood Ridge, New South Wales)

The adult moth of this species appears to be yellow all over, although the specimen that Strand described and illustrated had a black abdomen. The moth has a wingspan of about 4.5 cms.


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

The species has been found in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Drawing: Embrik Strand    ,
    Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region,
    in Adalbert Seitz (ed.): The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Plate 44, row g, figure 5 from the left,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

    Further reading :

    Embrik Strand,
    Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region,
    in Adalbert Seitz (ed.):
    The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
    Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), p. 361, and also Plate 44, row g, figure 5 from the left.

    Note that the oft quoted reference to:
    K.W. von Dalla Torre & Embrik Strand,
    Lepidopterorum catalogus,
    Part 31 (1925)
    is wrong as this volume is about a totally different Lepidoptera family : AEGERIIDAE in a totally different superfamily SESIOIDEA, and neither the word 'euproctis' nor 'urbis' occur in this volume.

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    (written 14 November 2023, updated 23 June 2026)