Rhomboid Moth (previously known as Euplexia adamantina) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nick Lambert,
Blackheath, New South Wales)
The forewings of the adult moth are dark brown each with pale sinuous bands and a pale blob in the middle. The hindwings are brown fading slightly toward the bases. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species occurs in :
Further reading :
George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 7 (1908), p. 247, No. 3033, and also
Plate 114, fig. 16.
Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 10-11.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic and other notes,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 30 (1906), p. 120.
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(updated 30 October 2011, 23 January 2023)