Pandesma quenavadi Guenée, 1852
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Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Pandesma quenavadi
(Photo: courtesy of Soh Kam Yung, Singapore)

This adult moth has pale brown patterned wings each with a broad darker brown marginal band, and with a dark spot near the middle of each forewing. The moth has a wingspan of about 5 cms.

Pandesma quenavadi
(Photo: courtesy of Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

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

  • Bangladesh,
  • Singapore,
  • Thailand,

    and also in Australia in

  • Northern Territory, and
  • Queensland.

    Pandesma quenavadi
    male, drawing by Achille Guenée, Noctuélites    ,
    in Boisduval & Guenée: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes,
    Volume 9, Part 6 (1852), Plate 15, fig. 3,
    Image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

    Further reading :

    Achille Guenée,
    Noctuélites,
    in Boisduval & Guenée: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
    Volume 9, Part 6 (1852), pp. 438-439, No. 1310, and also Plate 15, fig. 3.

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    (written 16 November 2015, updated 10 October 2024)