Pterocyclophora huntei Warren, 1903 (one synonym is Pterocyclophora pratti Druce, 1909) CATOCALINI,   EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Imam Taufik Hidayat, Mimika, Papua New Guinea)

The adult moth has variable patchy brown forewings, each crossed by two dark lines, and with a dark-edged pale or dark area along the margin. The forewings have hooked wing-tips, and each wing has a serrated margin.

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

The hindwings are yellow, with a dark-edged pale or dark area along the margin. One of the serrations on the each hindwing margin is elongated into a tail. The wingspan of the female is about 8 cms. The wingspan of the male is about 7 cms.

female, drawing by George Francis Hampson,,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume XII (1913), Plate CCXVI, figure 10,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

The species has been found in

Queensland.

male, drawing by George Francis Hampson,,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume XII (1913), Plate CCXVI, figure 9,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Herbert Druce,
Descriptions of three new species of Heterocera from Dutch New Guinea,
Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology,
Series 8, Part 3 (1909), p. 348.

George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 12 (1913), p. 468, No. 7504, and also Plate 116, figs. 9 & 10.

William Warren,
New moths from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 10 (1903), p. 122.

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(written 28 May 2019, updated 15 September 2024)