Acachmena xylonota (Lower, 1903)
 (previously known as Zagira xylonota)
CHLOEPHORINAE,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA,  
  
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The moths of this species have brown wings with vague darker bands or lines.

Acachmena xylonota
female, drawing by George Hampson, listed as Lophoruza xylonota,
Catalogue of the Noctuidæ in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum, Plate CLV, Figure 28,
Image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

The species is found in

  • Queensland.

    Further reading

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new Australian Noctuina etc,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 27 (1903), p. 34.

    George F. Hampson,
    Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
    Volume 10 (1910), p. 232, No. 5355, and also Plate CLV, Figure 28.

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    (updated 3 July 2013, 25 March 2021)