(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda)

The adult moth of this species is dark brown with a white diagonal stripe on each fore wing.

from Illustration 16 on Plate LVII of Hampson's Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

This species occurs all over much of mainland Australia, including

South Australia.

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Further reading :

Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia: A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999.

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