Ataboruza divisa (Walker, 1862)
 (one synonym is Zagira bicolora Bethune-Baker, 1906)
BOLETOBIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Ataboruza divisa
(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has brown wings. The forewings each have a broad pale area along the costa which extends across the thorax and the first segments of the abdomen. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species has been found across south-east Asia, including

  • India,
  • Thailand,
  • Taiwan,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland, and
  • Nw South Wales.

    Ataboruza divisa
    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

    The species Selenis or Oruza semilux Walker 1865, is thought by some taxonomists to be a junior synonym of Ataboruza divisa Walker 1862.

    Further reading :

    George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
    New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 13 (1906), p. 213, No. 60.

    Francis Walker,
    Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London,
    3rd Series, Volume 1 (1862), p. 107.

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    (written 18 September 2018, updated 24 September 2025)