(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Melbourne)

The adult moth has brown forewings with zig-zag patterns along the margins, and a dumb-bell mark in the centre of each wing. The hind wings are buff, darkening to the margin, with dark veins. It has a wingspan of about 4 cms.

Illustration number 7, in Plate LX of Hampson's Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

The species is found in Australia in:

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
The Australian Cutworms of the genus agrotis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Australian Journal of Zoology, Volume 6 (1958), Number 1, pp. 69 - 88

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