Forest Day-moth
An attractive black moth with small cream flecks on the fore wings and larger cream bars on the hind wings. Each fore wing also showed narrow pale lines one extending along the costa from thorax to middle of wing and the other, from the wing base to the middle of the wing. Antennae were thin and of moderate length, looking like those of a butterfly. Wing span was about 50 mm.
Spotted in a nature reserve - Balmoral, Sydney. When resting on vertical surfaces this species is said to rest head down just as I observed a few minutes later.
Cruria synopla is a day-flying moth of Noctuidae family. The adult moth of this species is black with white splotches on the forewings, and a pale yellow bar across each hindwing. The moths have a wingspan of about 5 cms.
