1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

2. Diagnosis

1-3: ♀, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1: Turner (1902: 112) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Hyela thapsina Turner, 1902 [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Tarache xuthota Hampson, 1910 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Acontia bilineata (Warren, 1913) [subspecies according to funet.fi]
• Acontia thapsinana (Strand, 1917) [subspecies according to funet.fi]

3.3. Literature

• Original description: Turner, A. J. (1902): New genera and species of Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Noctuidæ. — The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27 (1): 77-136. Sydney (F. Cunninghame & Co.).