Pachythrix mniochlora (Meyrick, 1889)
(previously known as :
Hadena mniochlora)
AMPHIPYRINAE ,
NOCTUIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
male, listed as Trachea mniochlora
Illustration number 3, in
Plate CXI of Hampson's
Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of
Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)
The forewings of the adult moth have a pattern of
green, and light and dark brown, including a pale submarginal band
containing a row of white-edged chevrons.
The hindwings are brown,
each sometimes with a vague dark patch near the costa,
and/or a vague submarginal dark band.
The species occurs in
New Guinea,
as well as in Australia in:
Queensland.
(updated 27 October 2011)
