(previously known as Acanthocoles eucesta) CATOCALINI, EREBINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Uwe Path, Alice Springs, Northern Territory)
The adult moths of this species are orange, with a brown eyespot on each forewing, and a brown line across the base of each forewing. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species has been found the outback of Australia, in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 21.7, pp. 71, 454.
George Francis Hampson,
Noctuidae,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 12 (1913), pp. 373-374, No. 7483, and also
Plate 210, figure 7.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic and other notes: Noctuidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), p. 26.
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(updated 24 June 2011, 12 May 2017, 18 July 2021)