Xylina ligniplena Walker, 1857 (often known as Dasygaster ligniplena) HADENINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each having a complex pattern including dark-edged pale zigzag lines and pale patches. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the margins. The hindwing margins are scalloped. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species occurs in Australia in

Tasmania.

(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania)

The genera Xylina and Dasygaster are inappropriate for this species, but a suitable genus has yet to be described.

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Further reading:

Francis Walker,
Noctuidae,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 11 (1857), p. 762, No. 7.

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(written 16 June 2019)