Carea unipunctata Bethune-Baker, 1906
(erroneously: Carca fulvida)
CHLOEPHORINAE ,
NOCTUIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 15 August 2008)
(Specimen: courtesy of
Paul Dangerfield, Jane Royer, and Aurea King,
Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries,
and
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)
The adult moth of this species is rusty brown with a pair
of dark diagonal lines across each forewing,
and with a black-edged white dot on each forewing
between the pair of lines.
The hindwing are orange.
The wingspan is about 3 cms.
(Specimen: courtesy of the
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)
Illustration 9, Plate CLXXXVIII, Hampson 1903-1913,
(Courtesy of
Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)
The species has been found in
New Guinea, and
in Queensland in Australia.
