Leucania leucosta Lower, 1902 (previously known as Cirphis leucosta) HADENINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have rusty brown forewings, each with a black-edged pale dot near the middle, and a narrow white line along the costa.

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The hindwings are white with brown veins and margins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The moths are found in :

South Australia.

male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Cirphis leucosta,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume V (1905), Plate XCI, figure 26,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading

Oswald B. Lower,
New Species of Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 26 (1902), p. 644.

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(updated 12 August 2012, 18 April 2021)