Eremochroa paradesma Lower, 1902
 ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Eremochroa paradesma
(Photo: courtesy of Linda Millison, Adelaide, South Australia)

The forewings of the adult moth each have a pattern of shades of brown. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening at the margins, with dark veins. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

  • New South Wales, and
  • South Australia.

    Eremochroa paradesma
    male, drawing by George Francis Hampson,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume VIII (1909), Plate CXXXI, fig. 12,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

    Further reading

    George Francis Hampson,
    Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
    Volume 8 (1909), pp. 372-373, No. 4029, and also Plate 131, fig. 12.

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Species of Australian Lepidoptera,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 26 (1902), p. 645.

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    (written 28 November 2011, updated 23 January 2023)