Eugoa sordida Rothschild, 1913
 LITHOSIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
  
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Eugoa sordida
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland, listed as Eugoa basipuncta)

The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each with two variable dark brown transverse bands, as well as a number of dark brown spots. The hindwings are pale yellow. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.

Eugoa sordida
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

  • Papua,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Eugoa sordida
    male, drawing by George Francis Hampson,    ,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume XII (1913), Plate XLII, figure 3,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

    Further reading :

    George Francis Hampson,
    Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the British Museum,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
    Supplement 1 (1914), p. 811, No. 1164b, and also Supplement 2 (1914), Plate 42, fig. 3.

    Lionel Walter Rothschild,
    New Lithosianae,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 20, Part 1 (1913), p. 221, No. 321.

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    (written 15 June 2024)