Saroba rufescens (Pagenstecher, 1884) (one synonym: Capnodes gillolensis Swinhoe, 1917) BOLETOBIINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moth of this species has reddish-brown wings, each crossed by a number of faint dark zigzag lines, the vertices of which degenerate into a row of black and white spots. The wingtips are slightly recurved, and have a dark patch edged by a white patch. The hindwings are similar to the forewings but have plain brown rounded wingtips. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Queensland.

listed as Alamis rufescens,
line drawing by Arnold Pagenstecher, lithographed and printed by Julius Niedner & Co., Wiesbaden,
Beiträge zur Lepidopteren-Fauna von Amboina,
Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde, Volume 37 (1884), Taf VI, fig. 11,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Marine Biological Laboratory & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library.

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Further reading :

Arnold Pagenstecher,
Beiträge zur Lepidopteren-Fauna von Amboina,
Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde,
Volume 37 (1884), p. 228, and also Plate 6, fig. 11.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 151.

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(updated 12 February 2012, 24 September 2025)