| (previously known as Parallelia curvisecta) EREBINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
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| (previously known as Parallelia curvisecta) EREBINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
These caterpillars are grey with black spots, and are thought to feed on various plants in the family EUPHORBIACEAE.
The adult moths of this species are brown, each forewing having a large curved dark triangular marking. The wingspan is about 5 cms.
This species has been found in
and this appears to be the first published sighting in Australia, in
Some authors consider Dysgonia curvisecta Prout 1919, to be a subspecies of Bastilla joviana Stoll, 1872, which has been found from South Africa to the Moluccas, but the Australian Faunal Directory lists it as a separate species.
Further reading :
Louis Beethoven Prout,
New and insufficiently-known moths in the Joicey Collection,
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 9, Volume 3 (1919), p. 185, No. 30.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 133.
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(updated 10 October 2011, 30 October 2025)