Austrazenia tusa (Swinhoe, 1902) (formerly known as Megalodes tusa) STIRIINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Simon Ong, Warumungu, Northern Territory)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with two pale diagonal transverse bands, and a pale submarginal arc. The hindwings are mainly fawn. The wingspan is about 2.6 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Northern Territory.

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Further reading :

Charles Swinhoe,
New species of eastern and Australian Heterocera,
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 7, Volume 9 (1909), pp. 168-169.

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(written 19 July 2022, updated 11 February 2026)