Dipterygina babooni (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
 (one synonym : Acronycta anceps Turner, 1944)
ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas John Fisher, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland)

The forewings of the adult moth each have a complex pattern of light and dark greyish brown. The hindwings are white with broad dark brown margins, and with dark veins. The wingspan is about 4 cms.


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

The species occurs in :

  • New Guinea

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Dipterygia babooni,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume VII (1908), Plate CIX, fig. 12,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

    Further reading :

    George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
    New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 13 (1906), p. 197, No. 15.

    George Francis Hampson,
    Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
    Volume 7 (1908), p. 65, No. 2801, and also Plate 109, fig. 12.

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    (updated 24 October 2011, 21 January 2023)