Hypena gypsospila (Turner, 1903) (erroneously known as Hypena gypsopila) HYPENINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Queensland)

The adult moth has brown patterned forewings each including a dark-edged pale line across the middle and a variable pale area along the costa.

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

The hindwings are dark brown with a white wingtip. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The species has been found in

Queensland.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

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Further reading :

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 163.

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic and other notes: Noctuidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 27 (1903), p. 14.

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(updated 8 September 2012, 29 July 2025)