Avirostrum pratti Bethune-Baker, 1908 CALPINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Iron Range, Queensland)

The adult male moth of this species has wings that are greyish brown crossed by several sorts of dark lines, and with a black spot and a white spot on each forewing. The wing margins each have an irregularly curved cusp. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

The female is more evenly coloured yellow.

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

The species has been found in New Guinea,

and in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 15 (1908), p. 227, No. 170.

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(written 17 August 2023)