Eremochroa psammias Meyrick, 1897
 ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


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

The wings of the adult moth each have a pattern of shades of brown, with two indistinct dark-edged pale bands across each forewing, and one across each hindwing. The wingspan is about 3 cms.


male, drawing by George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume VIII (1909), Plate CXXXI, fig. 9,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

The species occurs in :

  • Western Australia, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading:

    George Francis Hampson,
    Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
    Volume 8 (1909), p. 371, No. 4026, and also Plate 131, fig. 9.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of new Lepidoptera from Australia and New Zealand,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1897, pp. 368-369.

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    (updated 23 November 2011, 21 August 2019)