(previously known as Hadena mniochlora) 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 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 green fades to brown in old speciens. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species occurs in
as well as in Australia in:
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
On some Lepidoptera from New Guinea.,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1889, p. 469, No. 39.
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(updated 27 October 2011)