Eulocastra phaeozona Hampson, 1910 ACONTIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Simon Ong, Mueller Ranges, Western Australia)

The adult moth of this species has pale brown forewings each with a large jagged black mark across the middle, and a small black mark at the wingtip. The head and thorax are black, except the meso-thorax which is pale brown. The moth has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

male, drawing by George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Noctuidæ in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum, Volume X (1910), Plate XLVII, fig. 29,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

The species is found in Australia in

Western Australia.

The genus of this species is under review.

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Further reading :

George F. Hampson,
Noctuidae,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Volume 10 (1910), p. 629, No. 5952, and Plate 167, fig. 29.

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(written 17 December 2023)