Discophlebia blosyrodes Turner, 1903 (previously known as Oenone xenopis) OENOSANDRIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

These moths have grey forewings, each with a number of variable brownish patches, dark submarginal lines, and small roundish outlines. The hindwings are grey with broad white margins. The moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

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

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 28 (1903), p. 67, No. 22.

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(written 5 November 2016, updated 17 August 2018)