| Incised Snout HYPENINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris, Croajingolong, Victoria)
|
| Incised Snout HYPENINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Ken Harris, Croajingolong, Victoria)
The adult moth is pale grey-brown, with variable dark spots and zigzag transverse lines, sometimes including a dark patch near the middle of the margin of each forewing, and a dark marginal area to each hindwing. The forewings each appear to have a concave slice taken out of the margin near the wingtip. The hindwings are each kite-shaped. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 50 (1939), pp. 149-150.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  caterpillars |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 21 January 2020, updated 4 April 2021)