(one synonym : Acronycta anceps Turner, 1944) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (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.
The species occurs in :
as well as in Australia in
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)