| Wood-grain Artigisa (formerly known as Hemerophila lignicolaria) HYPENINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)
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| Wood-grain Artigisa (formerly known as Hemerophila lignicolaria) HYPENINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)
The adult moth of this species has areas of shades of brown delineated by dark zigzag lines all over, and has a particularly dark patch near the middle of the margin of each wing. The moth normally rests with the wings out flat, like many GEOMETRIDAE. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 8-9.
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 35, Supplement 5 (1866), p. 1579.
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(written 24 April 2019, updated 23 September 2020)