Hopetounia carda Swinhoe, 1902 CALPINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each with a broad irregular patchy pale grey streak along the costa. The hindwings are off-white, shading darker at the margins. The wing margins are slightly sinuous. The head and thorax are pale grey. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Charles Swinhoe,
New species of eastern and Australian Heterocera,
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 7, Volume 9 (1902), pp. 173-174.

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(written 11 May 2019)