| Dark Snout (one synonym is Panilla cautophanes Turner, 1902) HYPENINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth is brown, sometimes very dark, with variable complex markings. Each forewing sometimes has a pair of pale arcs on the costa near the wingtip sometimes edging a dark rounded triangle extending to the wingtip. The wing margins are scalloped. Both sexes have thread-like antennae. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 6-7.
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of new species of Australian Lepidoptera, with notes on synonymy,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22, No.1 (1897), pp. 12-13.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Genera and Species of Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Noctuidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 27, No.1 (1902), pp. 122-123.
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(written 16 January 2020, updated 6 April 2021)