Bastilla dicoela (Turner, 1909)
 (formerly known as Thyas dicoela)
EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Bastilla dicoela
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species is dark brown, with a pale margin and a transverse white stripe to each wing. The wingspan is about 5 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

  • Queensland.

    Bastilla dicoela
    male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Anua intacta    ,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume XII (1913), Plate CCXXI, figure 4,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

    Further reading :

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 128.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera belonging to the family Noctuidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 34 (1909), p. 346.

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    (updated 10 March 2010, 19 August 2019, 6 April 2022)