Neogabara plagiola Wileman & West, 1929
CATOCALINI,   EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Neogabara plagiola
(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Iron Range, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each with a pattern of dark markings, including several dark transverse curvy lines. Some individuals have a dark patch on the forewing hind margin between the lines.

Neogabara plagiola
specimen with dark patch
(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Iron Range, Queensland)

The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the margins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found across south-east Asia, including

  • Malaysia,
  • Philippines,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    Alfred Ernest Wileman & Reginald James West,
    Descriptions of new species of Noctuidae,
    Novitates Zoologicae,
    Volume 35 (1929), p. 25, No. 43.


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    (written 12 May 2019, updated 15 September 2024)