1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

2. Diagnosis

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

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

3. Further information

3.1. Etymology

Common (1954: 94, footnote): “δίσκριτος = hard to determine.”

3.2. Type material

Common (1954: 94, 95-96): “Holotype male: Black Mountain, Canberra, A.C.T., 31.x.1952, I. F. B. Common (light trap); allotype female: Black Mountain, A.C.T., 3.xi.1952, I. F. B. Common (light trap); paratypes: a series of 19 specimens of both sexes from the same locality.” — “The holotype male and allotype female, together with 11 paratypes, are in the Division of Entomology Museum, C.S.I.R.O., Canberra. Two paratypes, a male and a female, have been deposited in each of the following museums: the British Museum (Natural History), the Australian Museum, Sydney, the South Australian Museum, Adelaide, and the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne.”

3.3. Literature

• Original description: Common, I. F. B. (1954): The Australian Armyworms of the Genus Persectania (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae). — Australian Journal of Zoology 2 (1): 86-99, pl. 1. Melbourne. [Abstract at publish.csiro.au]