Xanthograpta purpurascens (Hampson, 1910) (previously known as Micrapatetis purpurascens) ACONTIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has shiny purplish-brown forewings each with a broad sinuous well-defined dark band across the middle. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Queensland.

female, drawing by George F. Hampson, listed as Micrapatetis purpurascens,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum, Noctuidæ, Volume IX (1910), Plate CXLVI, fig. 21,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading :

George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 9 (1910), p. 454, No. 4931, and also Plate 146, fig. 21.

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(updated 21 April 2011, 8 September 2019)