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Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae)

Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae)

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This moth sub-category for the superfamily Noctuoidea contains the large families Noctuidae and Erebidae as well the smaller Euteliidae, Nolidae, Notodontidae and Oenosandridae.  The Arctiinae also belong to this superfamily, but are distinctive and well known so are given their own moth sub-category

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Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae)

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PJH123 wrote:
46 min ago
@donhe you would need to see them front on then queenslandica has, “head lightly scaled, white, with a pair of purplish brown dots between the eyes just below the antennal bases: pair of thin purplish brown bars between antennal bases which extend almost to the mid-line; labial palps upturned, white, with purplish brown tips.”
Arctornis (genus)
donhe wrote:
3 hrs ago
@PJH123 : how you tell A lucens from A queenslandica ?
Arctornis (genus)
WendyEM wrote:
24 Jun 2025
the picture has not appeaared.
Ophiusa disjungens
WendyEM wrote:
24 Jun 2025
the picture has not appeaared.
Ophiusa disjungens
HelenCross wrote:
23 Jun 2025
Thanks, luckily I did bring it home - hopefully I can rear it successfully!
Lymantriinae (subfamily)

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