Pyripnoa auricularia (T.P. Lucas, 1895) (previously known as Madopa auricularia) ACONTIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Burrill Lake, New South Wales)

This adult moth has brown forewings with an irregular dark band across each one. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The moth has a wing span of about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Thomas P. Lucas,
Australian Lepidoptera : thirty new species,
Transactions of the Natural History Society of Queensland,
Volume 1 (1895), pp. 115-116.

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(written 10 April 2013, updated 3 June 2017, 8 September 2019, 23 August 2020)