Hooked Noctuid (one synonym : Prometopus endesma Lower, 1902) 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 each have a pattern of light and dark brown, including a pale subcostal streak, and pale area along the margin. The hind wings are pale brown, darker at the bases, with dark veins.
The species occurs in Australia, including:
Further reading :
Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 13, and also
Plate 109, fig. 26.
Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 18-19.
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(written 8 December 2011, updated 21 August 2019, 20 December 2020)