Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moths are pale brown with variable markings, Sometimes they have a broad pale marginal band. Sometimes they have a large dark patch in the middle of each forewing. The forewings each have a hooked wingtip. The wingspan is about 6 cms.

Photo by Arnold Schultze, listed as Hypopyra donata,
Philippine Journal of Science,
Volume 2, Section A (1907), Plate 1, fig. 7,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species Hulodes drylla has been found in :

There is controversy about whether the subspecies Hulodes drylla donata is itself a distinct species Hulodes donata (Schultze, 1907). It is found in

and also in Australia in

underside
(Photo: courtesy Paul Kay, Cairns, Queensland)

Further reading :

Achille Guenée,
Hypogrammidae,
in Boisduval & Guenée,
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 7 (1852), p. 209, No. 1609.

Miss A.E. Prout,
Noctuidae in the Joicey Collection,
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Volume 8, Series 9 (1921), p. 27, No. 23.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 142.

Arnold Schultze,
Philippine Journal of Science,
Volume 2, Section A (1907), p. 366, and also Plate 1, fig. 7.

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(updated 27 February 2011, 8 August 2015, 6 March 2020)