(one synonym : Praxis alampeta Turner, 1904) CALPINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
These adult moths are a speckled dark brown forewings. The hindwings are plain grey with a dark scalloped marginal line, and each has a white band across the middle. The undersides of all the wings are grey with a white band across the middle and a dark scalloped marginal line. Their wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species occurs in :
Further reading :
Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 15 (1858), p. 1801, ref. 1088.
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(written 25 July 2012, updated 3 February 2014)