Paramsacta gangara Swinhoe, 1892 (formerly known as Aloa gangara) ARCTIINI,   ARCTIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

with friend
(Photo: courtesy of Bevan Buirchell, Francois Peron National Park, Western Australia)

The adult moth of this species is basically white or pale yellow. The forewings have strongly marked dark brown veins. The hindwings each have a broad dark brown margin with a dark brown spot on the middle.

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

The moth has a yellow or red abdomen, with some black marks. The wingspan is about 5 cms.

drawing by Charles Swinhoe,,
Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum,
Part 1: Sphinges and Bombyces (1892), Plate IV, Fig. 2,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Paul Kay, Nanson, Western Australia)

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Further reading :

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. 171, No. 790, and also Plate 4, Fig. 2.

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(written 28 March 2015, updated 18 May 2026)