Westermannia argentata Butler, 1886
 (previously known as Vestermannia argentata)
CHLOEPHORINAE,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA,  
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

This species has adult moths with cream coloured forewings, and fawn hindwings darkening toward the margins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

Westermannia argentata
male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Vestermannia argentata,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume XI (1912), Plate CLXXXIX, figure 28,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

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

    Further reading :

    Arthur G. Butler,
    Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from the Australian region,
    Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
    1886, Part 4, p. 396, No. 23.

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    (updated 9 August 2011, 15 October 2020)