Olulis subrosea Turner, 1908 HYPENINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Kai Squires, Thornton Beach, Queensland)

The adult moth has pale grey forewings, each with a vague dark line down the centre which has some little black markings in the middle. The forewings each have a cusped margin. The hindwings are plain pale grey. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Kai Squires, Thornton Beach, Queensland)

Sometimes the moth also has a black thorax and black marks near the tornus.

The species has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

(Photo: courtesy of Antony Moore, Iron Range, Queensland)

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Lepidoptera of the families Noctuidae and Pyralidae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 32 (1908), p. 75.

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(written 31 October 2025)