Calathusa basicunea Walker, 1858
(one synonym: Corula ababaea Turner, 1902)
HYPENINAE, NOCTUIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 7 August 2011)


(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The adult moth is yellow with dark zig-zag patterns on each fore wing, and a dark border to each hind wing.


from Illustration 14 on Plate CLXXXIV of Hampson's Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

The species occurs over much of

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 48.11, p. 458.


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