Turnerinycta phaeocosma (Turner, 1920) (one synonym is Euplexia c-album Turner, 1943) ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Maleny, Queensland)

The forewings of the adult moth each have a complex grey or brown pattern, including a pale circle and a kidney-shaped mark each with a dark centre. The hindwings are pale grey-brown with dark margins and a faint vague dark submarginal band. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in:

Victoria.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Craniophora.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of the Australian Noctuidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 44 (1920), pp. 145-146.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection. No. 2,
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 12, Part 2 (1943), p. 110.

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(written 4 May 2019, updated 27 December 2022)