Pachythrix mniochlora (Meyrick, 1889) (previously known as Hadena mniochlora) ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (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.

male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Trachea mniochlora
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume VII (1908), Plate CXI, figure 3,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

The species occurs in

Queensland.

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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)