| (one synonym : Euplexia smaragdina Bethune-Baker, 1906) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Trachea smaragdistis
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume VII (1908), Plate CXI, figure 2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.
The forewings of the adult moth each have a pattern of green, white, and black, including a white patch near the middle. The hindwings are brown, each sometimes with a vague submarginal pale band.
The species occurs in
as well as in Australia in:
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Volume 7 (1908), p. 137, No. 2880, and also
Plate 111, fig. 2.
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(updated 27 October 2011, 26 February 2016)