Eucatephia dinawa (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
(previously known as Catephia dinawa)
CALPINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


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

The adult moths of this species have grey-brown patterned forewings, and white hindwings with a broad brown margin. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.

The species has been found in

  • New Guinea

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
    New Noctuidae from British New Guinea,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 13 (1906), p. 252, No. 192.


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    (written 27 August 2023)