(previously known as Perigea turpis Guenée, 1852) 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 are a patchy green and brown, each with a vague dark diagonal line extending from the wingtip to halfway along the hind-margin. The hindwings are pale brown shading rusty at the margins. The hindwing margins each have a rounded elbow. The green colour fades to brown in dead specimens. The wingspan is about 5 cms.
The species occurs in :
as well as in Australia in
The name Perigea turpis assigned by Warren could not be used as it had been used by Guenée for a South American species, so Poole renamed the Australasian species Bagada turpisoides.
Further reading :
Robert W. Poole,
Noctuidae,
Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series),
Parts 1–3 (1989) p. 787.
William Warren,
New Noctuidae in the Tring Museum mainly from the Indo-Oriental Region,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 19 (1912), p. 34, No. 73.
Achille Guenée,
Noctuélites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 5 (1852), p. 232, No. 375.
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(written 5 June 2019)