Detounda leptoplasta (Turner, 1920) Broad-winged Moth (formerly known as Orthocraspis leptoplasta) CHLOEPHORINAE,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA,

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

(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

The moths of this species have brown forewings, each with variable dark markings, often with two dark marks on the costa, and a dark-edged pale rectangle at the middle of the hind-margin.

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

The hindwings are paler except each has a vague dark margin. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species is found in

Victoria.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of the Australian Noctuidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 44 (1920), p. 186.

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(written 3 July 2013, updated 11 August 2019, 11 January 2022)