Avitta discipuncta (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
 (previously known as Sympis discipuncta)
CALPINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Avitta discipuncta
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moth of this species has rounded wings with a subtle pattern of dark grey, with a blue sheen in live specimens, which fades to brown when dead.

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

The species has been found in

  • Malaysia,
  • Solomons,

    and also in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Avitta discipuncta
    male, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Sympis discipuncta    ,
    Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
    Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXVIII, fig. 11,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

    Further reading :

    Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
    Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
    Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
    Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 18, and also Plate 118, fig. 11.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 128.

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    (updated 14 March 2010, 1 March 2018)