Dinumma mediobrunnea Bethune-Baker, 1906 EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Pornthap Kerkig)

The Caterpillar of this species is pale brown with a pale line along each side. The caterpillar has the first two pairs of prolegs missing.

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

The adult moth has brown forewings, each having areas of differing shades separated by sinuous lines, and having two black and white spots on the margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 13 (1906), p. 217, No. 78.

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(written 25 May 2019, updated 15 July 2021)