Metasada polycesta (Turner, 1902) White-bar Moth (formerly known as Zagira polycesta) ACONTIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

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

The adult moth has pale brown wings, each with a pattern including a pale grey stripe along the costa, a complex grey patch by the tornus, and several pale scalloped transverse lines. All the wing margins are slightly scalloped. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

This species has been found in Australia in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New genera and species of Lepidoptera belonging to the family Noctuidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 27 (1902), p. 120.

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(written 8 May 2019, updated 29 August 2020)