Ectopatria xerampelina (Turner, 1904)
Pale-brown Saltbush Moth
 (previously known as Prometopus xerampelina)
NOCTUINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


female
(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 are brown, fading toward the bases, with dark veins.


male
(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, Tolderol Game Reserve, South Australia)

The males have feathery antennae, and the females have thread-like antennae. The wingspan is about 4 cms.


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

The species occurs in

  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.


    female, drawing by George F. Hampson, listed as Omphaletis xerampelina    ,
    Noctuidæ of the British Museum, Volume VIII (1909), Plate CXXXI, Plate 131, Fig. 20,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

    Further reading :

    George F. Hampson,
    Noctuidae,
    Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
    Volume 8 (1909), p. 381, No. 4041.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera...with synonomic notes and other notes,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 28 (1904), p. 214.

    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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    (created 2 February 2012, 25 December 2020)