Cycloprora nodyna (Turner, 1904) (previously known as Prometopus nodyna) ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The forewings of the adult moth each have a complex grey-brown pattern, including a dark irregular band across the middle. The hindwings are pale grey-brown with dark margins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in:

Queensland.

male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Prometopus nodyna
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume VII (1908), Plate CXXXI, figure 8,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

This species was formerly placed in genus Craniophora.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera...with synonomic notes and other notes,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 28 (1904), p. 215.

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(updated 29 October 2011, 5 November 2023)