(formerly known as Remigia quaesita) ANOBINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
digitally repaired
(Photo: courtesy of
Dominic Funnell,
Iron Range, Queensland)
The adult moths have brown forewings with vague dark bands and dark dots. The hindwings are plain brown shading darker at the margins. The head and collar are a paler brown. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.
The species is found across Asia, including:
and has been found in Australia in:
Further reading :
Charles Swinhoe,
On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Deccan,
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,
1885, p. 468, No. 169, and also
Plate 27, fig. 8.
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(written 14 September 2023)