| (one synonym: Targalla pratti Bethune-Baker, 1906) EUTELIINAE, EUTELIIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
drawing by Gorg Semper, listed as Ingura tripatita,
Die Schmetterlinge der Phillippinischen Inseln,
Beitrag zur Indo-Malayischen Lepidopteren-Fauna, Tafel R, fig. 4,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.
These Caterpillars are brown with a humped thorax, two short spikes on each segment, and several on the last somite. The caterpillars have been found feeding on
The caterpillars grow to a length of about 4 cms. They pupate in a cell in the soil.
The forewings of the adult moths of this species are grey, and each has a pattern of dark lines and markings, including a vague grey eyespot spot near the middle. The hindwings are off-white. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.
The species occurs in
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 13 (1906), pp. 227-228, No. 115.
Gorg Semper,
Die Schmetterlinge der Phillippinischen Inseln,
Beitrag zur Indo-Malayischen Lepidopteren-Fauna,
Band 2, 1900, p. 532, No. 386, and also
Plate 60, fig. 8, and
Plate R, fig. 4.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 29 March 2019)