Acatapaustus mesoleuca (Lower, 1903) (one synonym is Acatapaustus basifusca Bethune-Baker 1904) NOLINAE,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moth has brown forewings, each with a broad vague white transverse band each of which is crossed by a narrow dark-edged brown band. The hindwings are white with dark edges. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found inAustralia in

Queensland.

Photo: George Thomas Bethune-Baker, listed as Acatapaustus basifusca,
Novitates Zoologicae, Plate VI, fig. 25.
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Natural History Museum Library, London.

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of New Australian Noctuina, etc.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), pp. 39-40

George Thomas Bethune-Baker,
New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea,
Novitates Zoologicae,
Volume 11 (1904), pp. 415-416, No. 124, and Plate VI, fig. 25.

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(updated 12 April 2021, 24 April 2026)