Armactica columbina Walker, 1865
CHLOEPHORINAENOCTUIDAE

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

(updated 4 March 2009)

Armactica columbina

This moth has dark grey fore wings with the outer edge marked by a succession of coloured bands: grey, then white, brown, and black. There is a small but bright blue eyespot near the centre of each fore wing, and a row of five smaller eyespots in each brown band. The hind wings are yellow with a black border. The moth has a wingspan of about 2 cms.

Armactica columbina

The species is found in the northern two-thirds of Australia, including :

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


    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 48.2, p. 457.


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