Leucania dasycnema (Turner, 1912) Southern Noctuid (formerly known as Cirphis dasycnema) HADENINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have forewings that each are pale brown with a subterminal arc of black dots, and have a smudge near the middle. The hindwings are white shading to brown at the margins. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species is found in :

Victoria.

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Further reading :

Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 28-29.

A. Jefferis Turner,
On Some Types of Lepidoptera in the National Museum, Melbourne,
Memoirs of the National Museum, Melbourne,
Volume 4 (1912), p. 21.

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(written 19 October 2014, updated 25 December 2020)