Bocula odontosema Turner, 1909
 (one synonym : Trapezoptera lobata Hulstaert, 1924)
CATOCALINI,   EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has wings that are a pale brown, with variable dark markings on the forewing margins. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.


female
(Photo: courtesy of Jillian MacDonald and Questagame)


(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Mission River, Queensland)

The species has been found in

  • New Guinea,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    (Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

    Further reading :

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 129.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera belonging to the family Noctuidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 34 (1909), p. 347.

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    (updated 10 March 2010, 28 September 2025)