Dasygaster melambaphes Turner, 1925
Black-on-black Armyworm
HADENINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Dasygaster melambaphes
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths of this species have brown wings each forewing having a pattern of dark chevrons and splotches. The hindwings are plain brown, shading darker toward the margins. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria, and
  • Tasmania.

    The genus into which this species should be placed is controversial.


    Further reading :

    Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
    Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C)
    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 26-27.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    New Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 49 (1925), pp. 37-38.


    previous
    back
    caterpillar
    Australian
    Australian Butterflies
    butterflies
    Australian
    home
    Lepidoptera
    Australian
    Australian Moths
    moths
    next
    next
    caterpillar

    (written 14 April 2013, updated 24 December 2020, 29 March 2021)