Nanaguna clopaea (Turner, 1902)
(previously known as Dendrothripta clopaea)
SARROTHRIPINAE,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Nanaguna clopaea
(Photo: courtesy of Harold McQueen, Goodna, Queensland)

The caterpillar of this species has sparse stiff hairs, and is pale brown with a dorsal pink patch on each segment containing several pale spots.

Nanaguna clopaea
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, taken in Merimbula, New South Wales)

The adult moth is grey and brown, with varied light and dark wavy markings on the forewings, and plain hindwings that darken toward the margins and have dark veins.

Nanaguna clopaea
(Photo: courtesy of Harold McQueen, Goodna, Queensland)

The moth has white legs. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

Nanaguna clopaea
(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Albury, New South Wales)

This species has been found in

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


    female, drawing by George Francis Hampson,
    ,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume XI (1912), Plate CLXXXI, figure 1,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.


    Further reading :

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 2, 2nd Edition,
    Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A)
    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 30-31.

    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 (1902), pp. 92-93.


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    (updated 29 August 2013, 15 August 2019, 26 May 2020, 13 March 2022)