Donuca spectabilis

White-spotted owl-moth
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Donuca
Species:	D. spectabilis
Binomial name
	Donuca spectabilis; Walker, 1865
Synonyms
	Eucyclomma spectabilis ; Donuca memorabilis Walker, 1865 ; Serrodes xanthorrhoea Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 ; Serrodes yorkensis Strand, 1914 ; Serrodes queenslandica Strand, 1914 ; Donuca spectabilica Gaede, 1938 ; Donuca yorkensis Gaede, 1938 ;

Donuca spectabilis, the white-spotted owl-moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in most of mainland Australia.^[1]

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The wingspan is about 50 mm.

The larvae feed on Acacia saligna.

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