Stenhypena albopunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
 (one synonym : Hypena cirphoides Rothschild, 1915)
HERMINIINAE
EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Stenhypena albopunctata
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moth of this species is brown, with each forewing having a vague dark streak along the middle, and a submarginal arc of small white-edged black dots. The moth has a wing span of about 3 cms.

Stenhypena albopunctata
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species is found in

  • New Guinea,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
    New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 15 (1908), p. 237, No. 206.

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    (written 25 January 2022)