Agrotis radians

Agrotis radians Guenée, 1852
White-line Cutworm
(one synonym : Agrotis repanda Walker, 1857)
NOCTUINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA

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

Agrotis radians
male
(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Melbourne, Victoria)

The adult moth has brown forewings each with jagged patterns along the margins, pale-edged dark veins, and a dumb-bell mark in the centre of each wing. The hindwings are buff, darkening to the margin, with dark veins. It has a wingspan of about 4 cms.

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

The species is found in Australia in:

Queensland,

New South Wales,

Australian Capital Territory,

Victoria,

Tasmania,

South Australia, and

Western Australia.

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

male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Euxoa radians,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume IV (1903), Plate LX, figure 7,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
The Australian Cutworms of the genus Agrotis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae),
Australian Journal of Zoology,
Volume 6 (1958), Number 1, pp. 69 - 88

Achille Guenée,
Noctuélites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 5, Section 1 (1852), p. 261, No. 416.

Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 30-31.

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(updated 15 April 2013, 14 April 2017, 25 December 2020)