| (one synonym : Molvena hieroglyphica Turner, 1920) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| (one synonym : Molvena hieroglyphica Turner, 1920) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The forewings of the adult moth have a pattern of black and white. The hind wings are dark grey-brown, fading toward the bases, with dark veins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in
and also in Australia in:
female, drawing by George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume VIII (1909), Plate CXXIV, figure 2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Volume 8 (1909), pp. 48-49, No. 3623.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(updated 21 November 2011)