![]() | (one synonym : Praxis inordinata Walker, 1858) Brown Praxis CALPINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@outlook.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris,
Morwell Park, Victoria)
The adult moth of this species is brown, with cream dots along the legs and antennae, and often around the wing edges. The wings each also have a number of submarginal wiggly bands and lines. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species occurs in :
Further reading :
Achille Guenée,
Hypogrammidae,
in Boisduval & Guenée: Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 7 (1852), p. 29, No. 1355, and also
Plate 18, fig. 10.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 14-15.
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(updated 13 April 2013, 3 March 2014)