(previously known as Caradrina euchroa) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Andrew Mitchell,
Australian Museum)
The moths of this species have a complex brown pattern on each forewing, and plain pale brown hindwings with dark veins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
This species occurs in Australia, including:
Further reading
George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 8 (1909), p. 385, No. 4048, and also
Plate 131, fig. 25.
Oswald B. Lower,
New Species of Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 26 (1902), pp. 653-654.
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(written 13 February 2012, updated 22 August 2019, 29 August 2021)