Lichen Double-spot (formerly known as Caradrina lichenophora) CALPINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
David Fischer,
Black Mountain, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moths of this species have greyish forewings, each with a black-outlined broad irregular dark band across the middle containing two large round black-outlined grey-centred circles. The hindwings are off-white, shading darker at the margins. The wing margins are slightly sinuous. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 26 (1902), pp. 224-225.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 30-31.
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(written 11 May 2019, updated 11 September 2024)