| Broad-winged Moth (formerly known as Orthocraspis leptoplasta) ARIOLICINI, CHLOEPHORINAE, NOLIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA, | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)
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| Broad-winged Moth (formerly known as Orthocraspis leptoplasta) ARIOLICINI, CHLOEPHORINAE, NOLIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA, | (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.
The hindwings are paler except each has a vague dark margin. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in
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 7 April 2026)