| Pale Armyworm HADENINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| Pale Armyworm HADENINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species are off-white, each forewing having some brown dashes on the costa, a submarginal arc of brown dots, and a brown suffusion, particularly along the hind-margin. The hindwings are off-white, darkening toward the margins. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
The genus Chabuata is inappropriate for this species, but a suitable genus has yet to be described and published.
Further reading :
Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 26-27.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Annals of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 10 (1911), p. 62.
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(written 6 January 2019, updated 24 December 2020)