(one synonym: Ariathisa chionopasta Hampson, 1909) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Bevan Buirchell,
Eucla, Western Australia)
These caterpillars have been found feeding on plant species in the family CHENOPODIACEAE under sand.
The moths of this species have reddish-brown forewings, each with a pale marginal band. The hindwings are pale with dark veins.
This species occurs in
Further reading
George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 8 (1909), pp. 393-394, No. 4058, and also
Plate 131, fig. 32.
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 21 (1897), pp. 51-52.
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(written 27 July 2012, updated 24 January 2023)