Nanaguna breviuscula Walker, 1863
Pigeonpea Pod Borer
 (also known as Etanna breviuscula)
SARROTHRIPINI,   NOLIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Nanaguna breviuscula
(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The caterpillars of this moth have been found feeding on :

  • Bushman's Clothes Pegs ( Grevillea glauca, PROTEACEAE ),
  • Tick Trefoil ( Desmodium species, FABACEAE ), and
  • the flowers of Mango ( Mangifera indicans, ANACARDIACEAE ).


    (Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

    The adult moth is buff and grey, with dark brown patches on each forewing. The wingspan is about 2 cms.


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

    The species has been found across sout-east Asia and the western Pacific, including:

  • American Samoa,
  • Borneo,
  • India,
  • Singapore,
  • Taiwan,

    and also in Australia in

  • the north of Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia,
    Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 48.13, p. 459.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 172.

    Francis Walker,
    Crambites & Tortricites,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 27 (1863), p. 85, No. 1.

    Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
    A Guide to Australian Moths,
    CSIRO Publishing, 2007, fig. 48.13, p. 186.

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    (updated 29 August 2013, 1 September 2025)