Thalatha trichroma (Meyrick, 1902)
(previously known as Hadena trichroma)
ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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Stella Crossley

Thalatha trichroma
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Lamington National Park, Queensland)

The forewings of the adult moth have a pattern of black, white, and green. The green fades to brown in museum specimens. The hind wings are dark grey-brown, fading toward the bases, with dark veins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in:

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

    Thalatha trichroma
    female, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Trachea trichroma

    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume VII (1908), Plate CXI, figure 5,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1902, pp. 26-27.


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    (updated 29 October 2011, 24 January 2023)