1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

1: ♂, Australia, Queensland, s/w Innisfail., Wooroonooran NP, Misty Mountains, 482 m, 21. April 2009 lux; (det. & phot.: Egbert Friedrich)

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♂, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

1-3: ♀, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1-2: Bethune-Baker (1904: 378, pl. IV fig. 1) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Neostauropus viridissimus (Bethune-Baker, 1904)

3.2. Synonyms

• Stauropus habrochlora Turner, 1922 [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Taxonomy

According to St Laurent et al. (2025: 61) Neostauropus Kiriakoff, 1967 is synonym of Stauropus subgenus Stauropus.

3.4. Literature

• Original description: Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1904): New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea. — Novitates Zoologicae 11 (2): 367-429, pl. IV-VI.
• St Laurent, R.A., Goldstein, P.Z., Prada-Lara, L., Schintlmeister, A., Miller, S.E., Miller, J.S. & R.K. Robbins (2025): Phylogenomics of Prominent Moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) A Subfamily-Level Reclassification. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 657. — 133 S.; Washington D.C. (Smithsonian Scholarly Press). [zum PDF-Download auf researchgate.net]