Austrazenia tusa (Swinhoe, 1902)
 (formerly known as Megalodes tusa)
STIRIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
Don Herbison-Evans
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Stella Crossley

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

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with two pale diagonal transverse bands, and a pale submarginal arc. The hindwings are mainly fawn. The wingspan is about 2.6 cms.

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

The species occurs in

  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

    Charles Swinhoe,
    New species of eastern and Australian Heterocera,
    The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
    Series 7, Volume 9 (1909), pp. 168-169.

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    (written 19 July 2022)