EREBINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
This adult moth has pale brown patterned wings each with a broad darker brown marginal band, and with a black dot near the middle of each forewing. The moth has a wingspan of about 5 cms.
The species has been found across south-east Asia including:
and also in Australia in
Further reading :
Achille Guenée,
Noctuélites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 6 (1852), pp. 438-439, No. 1310, and also
Plate 15, fig. 3.
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(written 16 November 2015, updated 20 August 2019, 27 October 2020)