Brown O-X Moth (previously known as Praxis macropa) ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Bevan Buirchell,
West Lyons River, Western Australia)
The wings of the adult moth each have a pattern of shades of brown, on each forewing. The hindwings are more uniformly brown, with dark veins and a darker margins. The wingspan is about 4 cms.
The species occurs in :
Further Reading:
George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 8 (1909), p. 372, No. 4028, and also
Plate 131, fig. 11.
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new species of Australian Lepidoptera, with notes on synonymy,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1997), p. 16.
Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 12-13.
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(updated 23 November 2011, 23 January 2023)