Enispa niviceps (Turner, 1909)
(formerly Micraeschus niviceps)
ACONTIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Enispa niviceps
(Photo: courtesy of David Tng, Danbulla, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has pale brown and red speckled wings, with variable markings, shading darker at the margins. The moth has a wing span of about 1.5 cms.

Enispa niviceps
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species is found in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Enispa niviceps
    male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Enispoa niveiceps,

    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume X (1910), Plate CL, fig. 4,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.


    Further reading :

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera belonging to the family Noctuidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 34 (1909), pp. 351-352.


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    (updated 28 September 2011, 30 January 2023)