Oxygonitis sericeata Hampson, 1893 CATOCALINI,   EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings that each have a vague dark patch near the middle, and two pale transverse lines. The hindwings are brown, each crossed by one pale line. The forewing tips are recurved, and the forewing margins have a cusp. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

female, listed as Oxygonitis sericeata,,
drawn and lithographed by Horace Knight, printed by West, Newman & Co. for George F. Hampson in
The Macrolepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon, Volume IX (1893), Plate CLXIII, figure 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The species has been found in

Queensland.

This species is sometimes placed in SCOLIOPTERYGINAE.

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Further reading :

George Francis Hampson,
The Macrolepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon,
Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the British Museum,
Part 9 (1893), p. 103, and also Plate 163, fig. 1.

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(written 6 April 2015, 15 October 2026)