Serrodes mediopallens L.B. Prout, 1924 EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

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

The adult moths of this species are light and dark blue-grey, often with a broad pale band across the middle of each forewing. The hindwings each have a pale basal half and a marginal darker half. The blue tinge fades to brown in museum specimens. The moths have a wingspan of about 7 cms. The moths feed on nectar and also the juice of damaged ripe fruit.

(B/W) photo by Louis Beethoven Prout,
Some apparently new Noctuidae from Sumatra, New Guinea, Mefor, and Buru,
Bulletin of the Hill Museum (Witley), Volume 1 (1924), Plate 15, fig. 2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species occurs across the south-west Pacific, including

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Louis Beethoven Prout,
Some apparently new Noctuidae from Sumatra, New Guinea, Mefor, and Buru,
Bulletin of the Hill Museum (Witley),
Volume 1 (1924), p. 447, No. 22, and also Plate 15, fig. 2.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 151.

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(written 17 August 2013, updated 29 August 2013)