Carea unipunctata Bethune-Baker, 1906 (one synonym : Carea fulvida Prout, 1924) CAREINI,   CHLOEPHORINAE,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA,

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

(Specimen: courtesy of Paul Dangerfield, Jane Royer, and Aurea King,
Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries,
and Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The adult moth of this species is rusty brown with a pair of dark diagonal lines across each forewing, and with a black-edged white dot on each forewing between the pair of lines. The hindwing are orange. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The species has been found in :

Queensland.

male, drawing by George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume XI (1912), Plate CLXXXVIII, figure 9,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading :

George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 13 (1906), p. 242, No. 161.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 168.

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(updated 8 August 2011)