A Passion for Fashion: Zigzag White-banded Noctuid

What a spectacular moth! The patterns on this creature, a Zigzag White-banded Noctuid (Donuca lanipes), looks like something a high fashion designer would envision.

From the site:

“This is one of the most beautiful moth we’d ever seen, and we’ve only seen it once. It is in the Owl Moth Family. The moth is dark brown in colour with shiny blue green. There are the eyespot marks on both forewings. There is the board white strip across the forewings and hind wings. There are the zigzag patterns along the wing bases. In Jan 2008, we saw this large spectacular moth in Karawatha Forest She-Oak area of Brisbane, Australia. It was resting near the base of a large but dead tree trunk. We only found this moth once. Wingspan 60mm.”