Dark-crescent Double-spot (previously known as Euplexia leucostigma) CALPINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moth of this species has brown forewings each with a subtle pattern including a large pale partial spiral near the middle. The hindwings are brown, paler at the bases. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in:
Further reading :
George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 7 (1908), p. 249, No. 3037, and also
Plate 114, fig. 20.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 30-31.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New genera and species of Lepidoptera belonging to the family Noctuidae.,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 27 (1902), pp. 82-83.
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(updated 18 November 2011, 1 January 2024)