![]() | (previously known as Gadirthra hades) Chestnut Crest CATOCALINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@outlook.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)
The adult moth of this species is brown with forewings that have a pattern of dark lines, and often has some white spots near the middle. It has a wing span of about 3 cms.
The species may be found in
Further reading
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of New Australian Noctuina, etc.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), p. 36.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 16-17.
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(updated 13 April 2013)