(erroneously : Rhynchina obliquarlis) HYPENINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Maik Bippus & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Nick Monaghan, Tewantin, Queensland)
The Caterpillars of this species have been found feeding on :
The adult moths have brown forewings, each with an oblique straight line from near the wingtip to halfway along the hind-margin, and a submarginal row of dark dots. The hindwings are plain brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.
Specimens have been taken in
as well as in Australia in
Kollar's 1844 holotype was lost for a period, during which the replacement name Hypena masurialis Guenée, 1854, was suggested. Subsequently the holotype was found, and so now the junior replacement name is no longer necessary.
Rhynchina obliqualis is superficially very similar to Hypena obacerralis, and they are confused in many collections. We hope we got the above photos correctly identified.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 448.
Achille Guenée,
Deltoïdes et Pyralites,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes; Spécies Général des Lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 8 (1854), p. 38, No. 40.
Martin Lödl,
Zur Wiederauffindung der Type von Rhynchina obliqualis (Kollar, 1844)
(Hypena) comb.n. im Naturhistorischen Museum in Wien,
nebst Bemerkungen zur Synonymie (Inserta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae),
Ann. Naturhistrisches Museum Wien,
Volume 96 B (1994), pp. 369-372.
Vincenz Kollar & Ludwig Redtenbacher,
Aufzählung und Beschreibung der von Freiherrn Carl v. Hügel
auf seiner Reise durch Kaschmir und des Himaleya Gebirge gesammelten Insecten,
in Freiherrn Carl v. Hügel:
Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek,
Stuttgart, Volume 4, Part 2 (1844), pp. 491-492.
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(updated 15 April 2013, 8 August 2024)