(previously known as Hypenagonia brunnea) BOLETOBIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has brown wings with variable complex patterns. The forewings each usually have a curved pale triangle on the costa near the wing-tip, often edged by a dark triangle. The forewing margins have a cusp. The hindwing margins have an angle. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 15 (1908), p. 239, No. 213.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 9 July 20231)