Aroana rubra Bethune-Baker, 1906 CATOCALINI,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

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

The adult moth of this species is brown, with a dark U mark outlined in white on each forewing. The forewings have doubly concave curved margins, with finely ragged edges. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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

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Further reading :

George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 13 (1906), p. 281, No. 285.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 124.

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(updated 29 March 2010, 18 August 2019)