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

Myrtartona leucopleura
(Photo: courtesy of Virginia Shepherd, at Sydney, New South Wales)

This adult moth is black with a blue sheen. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    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 h4,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

    Further Reading:

    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. 149.

    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 h4.

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    (written 11 July 2026)