Ectopatria umbrosa Hampson, 1903 NOCTUINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

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

The adult moth has greyish-brown forewings each with a complex pattern. The hindwings are brown. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species occurs in

South Australia.

female, drawing by George F. Hampson, listed as Ectopatria umbrosa,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume IV (1903), Plate LXXVII, figure 28,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading :

George F. Hampson,
Noctuidae,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 4 (1903), p. 654, No. 1124, and also Plate 77, figure 28.

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(updated 9 August 2012, 29 November 2023)