Black-tipped Scale-moth (previously known as Madopa ligata) ACONTIINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moth of this species has grey-brown wings. The forewings have black markings near the wingtip, and two dark wandering lines across each wing. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Thomas P. Lucas,
Australian Lepidoptera: thirty new species,
Transactions of the Natural History Society of Queensland,
Volume 1 (1895), p. 115.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 28-29.
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(updated 3 February 2010, 3 June 2017, 8 September 2019, 28 August 2020)