Musothyma cyanastis Meyrick, 1897 ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth has buff coloured forewings speckled with dark brown, with indistinct blue-grey patches along the margins of each forewing. The hindwings are pale brown with dark veins and wide dark brown margins. The moth has a wingspan of about 3 cms.

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

The species occurs in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of new Lepidoptera from Australia and New Zealand,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1897, p. 375.

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(written 24 January 2013, updated 21 August 2019)