Nanaguna clopaea (Turner, 1902)
(previously known as : Dendrothripta clopaea)
SARROTHRIPINAE ,   NOLIDAE

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


(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, taken in Merimbula)

The adult moth is brown with varied light and dark wavy markings on the forewings, and plain hindwings that darken toward the margins and have dark veins. The moth has white legs.


Illustration 1 in Plate CLXXXI of Hampson's Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

This species has been found in

  • New South Wales, and
  • Queensland.

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    (updated 7 December 2011)