Enispa niviceps (Turner, 1909) (formerly Micraeschus niviceps) ACONTIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(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.

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

The species is found in Australia in

Queensland.

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.

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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)