Blunt Noctuid (previously known as Caradina chrysospila) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
The moths of this species are brown with a central pale spot, and a pale marginal area, on each forewing, and hindwings that fade toward the bases. The thorax has two narrow dark brown streaks The wingspan is about 3 cms.
This species occurs in Australia, including:
Further reading
George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 8 (1909), p. 391, No. 4054, and also
Plate 131, fig. 28.
Oswald B. Lower,
New Species of Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 26 (1902), pp. 650-651.
Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 16-17.
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(written 8 February 2012, updated 13 February 2012, 21 August 2019, 21 December 2020, 8 April 2022)