Axiocteta oenoplex Turner, 1902
CATOCALINI,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings each with a pale spot in the middle, and cusp halfway along each margin. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 128.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New genera and species of Lepidoptera belonging to the family Noctuidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 27 (1902), p. 106.


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    (updated 24 February 2010, 18 August 2019, 12 July 2021)