Calathusa basicunea Walker, 1858
 (one synonym : Corula ababaea Turner, 1902)
Eastern Calathusa
HYPENINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


male
(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Maleny, Queensland)

The male adult moths of this species are grey, and the females brown, both with dark zig-zag patterns on each forewing, and a dark border to each hindwing. The wingspan is about 4 cms.


(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Moths of Victoria - Part 8)

The species occurs over much of

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


    female, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Calathusa ababaea,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume XI (1912), Plate CLXXXIV, figure 14,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 48.11, p. 458.

    George F. Hampson,
    Noctuidae,
    Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Volume 11 (1912), p. 381, No. 6704, and also Plate 184, figure 14.

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
    Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 6-7.

    Francis Walker,
    Noctuidae,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 15 (1858), p. 1645-1646, No. 1.

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    (updated 7 August 2011, 9 December 2019, 13 February 2021)