![]() | (previously known as Calliodes rubropicta) CATOCALINI, EREBINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: Don Herbison-Evans, Bundaberg, Queensland)
This adult moth has a spectacular pattern, with bold white lines and two large eyespots. Note how the diagonal lines on the wings link up when the moth is at rest to give it a false axis.
There are scarlet areas along the sides of the abdomen and the hind margins of the hindwings. The moth has a wingspan of about 5 cms.
The species is found in Australia in:
Further reading :
Arthur G. Butler,
Descriptions of two new species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera
in the collecton of the British Museum,
Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,
Volume 11 (1874), pp. 77-78.
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 21.15, p. 454.
George Francis Hampson,
Noctuiae,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 12 (1913), p. 370, No. 7480, and also
Plate 210, figure 13.
Peter Hendry,
At the Light Trap: Records of daytime flying moths
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Agaristinae) and the genus Donuca
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: catocalini),
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 55 (December 2009), pp. 24-27.
Jan Penny and Peter Hendry,
You Asked,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 72 (March 2014), p. 34..
Buck Richardson,
Mothology,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2008, pp. 6, 23.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 131.
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(updated 12 December 2011, 23 July 2024)