Eugatha thermochroa Hampson, 1911 ACONTIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Kai Squires, Daintree, Queensland)

The adult moth is brown, each forewing with a broad grey band along the margin, and a brown-centered pale mark near the middle. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the margins. The forewings each have a bluntly angled margin. The hindwings have a wavy margin. The wingspan is about 2.2 cms.

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

This species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

George F. Hampson,
Descriptions of new genera and species of Syntomidae, Arctiadae, Agaristidae, and Noctuidae,
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 8, Volume 8 (1911), p. 444, No. 5429a.

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(written 5 May 2019, updated 12 May 2024)