(previously known as Micrapatetis purpurascens) ACONTIINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson,
Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moth of this species has shiny purplish-brown forewings each with a broad sinuous well-defined dark band across the middle. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum,
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 9 (1910), p. 454, No. 4931, and also
Plate 146, fig. 21.
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(updated 21 April 2011, 8 September 2019)