Vizaga mirabilis (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
 (previously known as Parelydna mirabilis)
CHLOEPHORINAE,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA,  
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The colourful adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with a white bar, and has blue hindwings. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.

Vizaga mirabilis
(Photo: courtesy of Bart Hacobian, Iron Range, Queensland)

The species has been found in

  • New Guinea,

    and also in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Vizaga mirabilis
    male, drawing by George Francis Hampson,    ,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume XI (1912), Plate CLXXXIX, figure 15,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

    Further reading :

    George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
    New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 13 (1906), p. 242, No. 159.

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 22.9, p. 458.

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    (updated 8 August 2011, 3 December 2016)