male, listed as Mimeusemia proerosia
drawing by Horace Knight,
printed by West, Newman & Co. for
Hampson,
Catalogue of the Arctiadæ (Arctiadæ) and Agaristidæ in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Volume III (1901), Plate LIV, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.
The adult moth of this species is black,
with a broad white band across each forewing.
The abdomen has a yellow tip.
The wingspan is about 6 cms.
The species has found in
New Guinea,
and also in Australia in
Queensland.
Further reading:
George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 3 (1901), pp. 615-616, No. 150, and also
Plate 54, fig. 1.
Thomas P. Lucas,
On Queensland and other Australian Macro-Lepidoptera,
with Localities and Descriptions of new Species,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 6, Part 2 (1890), p. 301.
(written 26 July 2023, updated 10 September 2026)
