![]() | (one synonym : Nyctemera mckieana T.P.Lucas, 1898) ARCTIINI, ARCTIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson,
Kuranda, Queensland)
The adult moth of this species is dark brown with some white spots and a white bar across each forewing, and a large white basal patch on each hindwing. The moth has a wingspan of about 4 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 18.
Charles Swinhoe,
Sphinges and Bombyces,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera
in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Clarendon Press, Part 1 (1892), p. 145, No. 676, and also
Plate 5, Fig. 15.
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(updated 18 June 2008, 21 October 2024)