Targalla palliatrix (Guenée, 1852) (one synonym; Targalla infida Walker, 1858) EUTELIINAE,   EUTELIIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

drawing by Frederic Moore, listed as Targalla infida,
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon, L. Reeve, London, 1886, Plate 151, fig. 6a,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

These caterpillars are green, with a pale line along each side of the back.

drawing by Frederic Moore, listed as Targalla infida,
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon, L. Reeve, London, 1886, Plate 151, fig. 6a,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The pupa is rusty brown, formed in a cocoon covered in frass and debris.

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

The adult moths of this species are grey or brown, with a complex pale band across the middle of each forewing. The hindwings are brown with a series of vague submarginal bands and dark veins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

drawing by Frederic Moore, listed as Targalla infida,
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon, L. Reeve, London, 1886, Plate 151, fig. 6,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

This species occurs in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Achille Guenée,
Noctuélites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 6 (1852), p. 305, No. 1113.

Frederic Moore,
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon,
L. Reeve, London, Volume 3 (1886), p. 63, and also Plate 151, figs. 6, 6a, 6b.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 160.

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