Parascaptia biplagata Bethune-Baker, 1908
 (one synonym : Garudinia trifasciata Rothschild, 1908)
LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Parascaptia biplagata
(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Lockhart, Queensland, listed as Parascaptia trifasciata)

The adult moths of this species have yellow forewings, each crossed by three dark-edged wide purplish-brown bands. The hindwings are off-white, darkening toward the wingtips. The hindwing margins are slightly doubly concave. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.

Parascaptia biplagata
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, listed as Parascaptia trifasciata)

The species has been found in

  • New Guinea,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
    New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 13 (1906), p. 200, No. 285.

    Lionel Walter Rothschild,
    New Lithosianae,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 19 (1912), p. 234, No. 113.

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    (written 2 January 2023, updated 16 June 2024)