![]() | (formerly known as Capnodes albopunctata) BOLETOBIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has brown wings each with marginal and submarginal arcs of white spots. The forewings also have white spots along the costa. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.
The species has been found across south-east Asia, including
and also rarely in Australia in
This species: Saroba albopunctata, is superficially indistinguishable from Saroba niphomacula in habitus photographs. Such photos taken in Australia are more likely to be of Saroba niphomacula.
Further reading :
Frank Pierce,
Record of Saroba albopunctata in Cooktown,,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 92 (March 2019), p. 23.
Gorg Semper,
Die Schmetterlinge der Philippinischen Inseln,
Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen,
Volume 2 (1901), pp. 587-588, No. 543, and also
Plate 62, fig. 9.
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(written 21 January 2019, updated 17 August 2024)