and is inclined to eat the leaves of many other dicotyledons, including :

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

The adult moths are reddish-brown with a faint pattern on the forewings, sometimes including a dark or a white spot near the middle. They have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

Male
listed as Agrotis compta at Illustration 18 in Plate LXX, of Hampson's Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

The species is found in

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 50.3, pp. 65, 461, 465, 467.

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(updated 21 February 2011)