Acrapex albicostata (Lower, 1905)
Dark-streaked Moth
 (previously known as Sesamia albicostata)
NOCTUINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


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

The adult moth of this species has pale brown forewings each with a dark acute streak from base to margin. The hindwings are pale brown darkening at the margins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.


(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The species has been found in

  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.


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

    Further reading

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic notes. No. XXIII,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 29 (1905), p. 175.

    Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
    Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 12-13.

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    (written 18 August 2012, 18 September 2017, 1 March 2019, 19 December 2020)