Enispa rhodopleura Turner, 1945 ACONTIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

This adult moth has white forewings, each with reddish-brown edges, and variable arcs of grey marks. 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 has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection: No. 3,
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 12, Part 3 (1945), p. 157.

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