Rough Saltbush Moth (previously known as Hadena aspera) NOCTUINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth has brown forewings each with a complex pattern. The hindwings of the males are buff coloured, with dark wingtips, and the hindwings of the females are brown. The wingspan is up to 4 cms.
The species is migratory, and occurs in
and also over most of Australia, including
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
Noctuidae,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 4 (1903), p. 654, No. 1123, and also
Plate 77, Figure 27.
Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 30-31.
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 11 (1857), p. 601, No. 98.
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(updated 13 October 2011, 26 December 2020)