(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/CNC/CBG Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths are pale yellow, with a pink border around each forewing, and a brown border around each hindwing. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

figure 26, listed as Adisura dulcis, female,

figure 27, listed as Adisura marginalis, male,

drawings by George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume IV (1903), Plate LVIII,
images courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

The species has been found in south-east Asia, including:

as well as in Australia in

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, listed as Adisura dulcis, Townsville, Queensland)

Further reading

Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia:
A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999, pp. 29, 31-34, 143, 194, Plate 5: figs. 5.6-5.10.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 161.

Francis Walker,
Noctuidae,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 12 (1858), p. 830, No. 15.

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(updated 8 August 2011, 6 August 2025)