Arrade destituta (Walker, 1865) (previously known as Erastria destituta) Cryptic Snout HYPENINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Melba, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth is brown with three white zig-zag lines across each forewing, often separating areas of different shades.

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda)

In its natural posture: the moth can display tufts of scales, on the thorax and the abdomen. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Joan Fearn, Moruya, New South Wales)

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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

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Further reading :

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 8-9.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 33, Supplement part 3 (1865), p. 795.

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(updated 4 May 2011, 31 March 2021)