(one synonym : Phalaena ammonia Cramer, 1779) EREBINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have a large dark brown triangle with a white line across it on each forewing.
The species is found across south-east Asia, including
and in Australia in
Further reading :
Pieter Cramer,
Uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen,
Amsterdam Baalde, Volume 3 (1782), pp. 99-100, Fig. D, and also
Plate 250, fig. D..
Johan Christian Fabricius,
Historiae Natvralis Favtoribvs,
Systema Entomologiae,
1775, p. 599, No. 37.
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(updated 14 August 2008, 19 August 2019)