| ACONTIINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| ACONTIINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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.
This species has been found in
as well as in Australia in
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.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 5 May 2019)