Brown-bar Moth (one synonym : Eustrotia ochra Turner, 1945) ACONTIINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Bart Hacobian & Stella Crossley |
The adult moths of this species are buff coloured, with a forked brown band across each forewing containing a brown dot at the apex of the fork. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.
The specimens have been caught in
Further reading :
Arthur G. Butler,
Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of
Lepidoptera-Heterocera from the Australian Region,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1886, p. 399, No. 28.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 28-29.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 117.
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(updated 27 December 2009, 7 November 2018, 11 August 2020)