Rhynchina inornata (Butler, 1886) (previously known as Diptycophora inornata) HYPENINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moth has a brown pattern with pale streak near the tip of each forewing. The hindwings are plain brown. Each forewing has a slightly hooked wingtip, and each wing has a slightly scalloped margin. The moth has prominent labial palps . The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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

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Further reading :

Arthur G. Butler,
Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from the Australian region,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1886, Part 4, p. 440-441, No. 103.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 165.

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(written 7 July 2012, updated 17 August 2019, 6 April 2021)