Clytoscopa serena Turner, 1931 ACONTIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Carol & Trevor Deane, Dorrigo, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species have a bold pattern of light and dark brown overlapping chevrons on the forewings. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the margins. The forewing margins have a medial cusp. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Supplementary,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 56 (1931), p. 341.

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(written 12 April 2026)