Corgatha miltophyres Turner, 1920 BOLETOBIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMaster, Mount Mellum, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has a pattern of light and dark reddish brown patches, and white lines on the forewings, each with a broad pale margin, and a purple sheen. The forewing margins are doubly recurved, and also have a concave bend in the costa. The hindwings have a similar pattern to that on the forewings, but fading to white on the hindmargins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of the Australian Noctuidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 44 (1920), pp. 168-169.

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(written 17 June 2023)