Anisoneura aluco (Fabricius, 1775)
 (one synonym : Anisoneura hypocyana Guenée, 1852)
EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Anisoneura aluco
(Photo: courtesy of Axel Hausmann, SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen)

The wings of the adult moths of this species have a complex dark brown pattern. The margins of fore and hind wings appear corrugated. The undersides have a series of scalloped light and dark subterminal bands on each wing. The wingspan is up to about 14 cms.

Anisoneura aluco
male, drawing by Achille Guenée, listed as Anisoneura hypocyana,
in Boisduval & Guenée: Noctuélites, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes,
Volume 9, Part 7 (1852), Plate 17, fig. 3,
Image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species occurs across south-east Asia, including:

  • Hong Kong,
  • India,
  • Singapore,
  • Taiwan,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Northern Territory.

    Anisoneura aluco
    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

    Further reading

    Johan Christian Fabricius,
    Historiae Natvralis Favtoribvs,
    Systema Entomologiae (1775), p. 591, No. 4.

    Achille Guenée,
    Noctuélites,
    in Boisduval & Guenée: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
    Volume 9, Part 7 (1852), p. 162, No. 1553, and also Plate 17, fig. 3.

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    (written 29 January 2010, updated 12 December 2011, 18 August 2019, 27 July 2021)