Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
Male, listed as Cirphis obusta
Illustration 17 in
Plate XCI, of Hampson's
Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of
Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)
The adult moths of this species have reddish-brown forewings, and hindwings that are dark brown fading toward the bases.
This species occurs in
Further Reading:
Arthur G. Butler,
XX. Further notes on the synonymy of the genera of Noctuites.,
Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London,
Volume 38, Issue 4, pp. 653–691, December 1890.
William T. M. Forbes,
The Cirphis pseudargyria complex (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae),
Journal of the New York Entomological Society,
Volume 44, Number 3, pp. 239-247, September 1936.
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(updated 17 October 2011)
