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male, listed as Melicleptria osmida,
drawing by Horace Knight,
printed by André & Sleigh Ltd.,
for George F. Hampson,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume IV (1903), Plate LVII, figure 17,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.
The adult moth has brown forewings with a white diagonal stripe on each one, and buff hindwings. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
This species has been found in
Further reading :
Marcus Matthews,
Heliothine Moths of Australia:
A Guide to Pest Bollworms and Related Noctuid Groups,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera No. 7, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999.
Charles Swinhoe,
New and little known moths from India and Australia,
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 7, Volume 8 (1901), p. 126.
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(updated 8 August 2011, 16 August 2026)