(one synonym : Anisoneura hypocyana Guenée, 1852) EREBINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Axel Hausmann,
SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen)
The wings of the adult moths of this species have a complex dark brown pattern. The margins of fore and hind wings appear corrugated. The undersides have a series of scalloped light and dark subterminal bands on each wing. The wingspan is up to about 14 cms.
The species occurs across south-east Asia, including:
as well as in Australia in
Further reading
Johan Christian Fabricius,
Historiae Natvralis Favtoribvs,
Systema Entomologiae (1775), p. 591, No. 4.
Achille Guenée,
Noctuélites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 7 (1852), p. 162, No. 1553, and also
Plate 17, fig. 3.
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(written 29 January 2010, updated 12 December 2011, 18 August 2019, 27 July 2021)