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Uraba lugens
A grey moth with jagged black lines on wings. Each wing also showed a dark spot. The thorax had a distinct upside-down"T" shaped black line. Lateral shots showed a blunt "face" with very short up-curved labial palps. Moth would have been about 15 mm long.
Spotted under bright lights near sports field.
Thanks to Peter Marriott for the ID Male of this species in spotting http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/231... Caterpillar in this spotting (Hatted Caterpillar) http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/876... Family: Nolidae
Spotted on Mar 31, 2014
Submitted on Apr 1, 2014
2 Comments
That would have been great to see the female come out - they are tidy moths, I think. I was lucky to see both sexes in the same place but never thought they were U.lugens.
Nice spotting.
I bred some out last season and watched a female emerging from pupa.