Pale Noctuid (previously known as Agrotis gypsina) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Helen Wallace,
Port Noarlunga Beach, South Australia)
The adult moth of this species has pale grey forewings, each with a scattering of black specks, and a brownish splodge near the middle. The hindwings are white. The abdomen shades to yellow at the tip. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.
The species has been found 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. 392-393, No. 4056, and also
Plate 131, fig. 30.
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 21 (1897), p. 52.
Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 14-15.
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(written 31 May 2012, updated 24 January 2023)