(one synonym : Dumigania iochlora Turner, 1933) ACONTIINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
The adult moth has pale brown wings. The forewings each have a ridge of raised white scales along the margin, and an extra bunch of white scales by the base. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species is found in
as well as in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 47.13, p. 456.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 118.
William Warren,
New species of Drepanulidae, Noctuidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 21 (1914), p. 407, No. 17.
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(updated 19 February 2011, 8 September 2019,24 August 2020)