(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The adult moth is brown with a double dark spot near the centre of each forewing.

male, listed as Agrotis hypochalcis
from Illustration 29 on Plate LXIX of Hampson's Noctuidae of the British Museum, 1903-1913.
(Courtesy of Joe Kunkel, University of Massachusetts)

The moth is preyed on by the Bolas Spider ( Dichrostichus magnificus, ARANEIDAE ). which emits a pheromone similar to that of the female moth to attract male moths within range of a sticky ball of glue which the spider swings on a length of silk.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 60.

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(updated 16 October 2011)