| Pure Eublemma (formerly known as Thalpochares innocens) ACONTIINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Lyn Craggs,
Tamworth, New South Wales)
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| Pure Eublemma (formerly known as Thalpochares innocens) ACONTIINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Lyn Craggs,
Tamworth, New South Wales)
The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each shading darker at the margin, containing a submarginalarc of black dots, with a very dark one by the wingtip, a black or yellow line along the costa edged by a broad white streak, and yellowish fringes. The hindwings are off-white. The head and legs are yellow. The yellow fades in old specimens. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
Arthur G. Butler,
Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species of
Lepidoptera Heterocera from the Australian region,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1886, Part 4, p. 405, No. 39.
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 26-27.
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(updated 13 September 2022)