Ichneutica panda

The original description of this species given by Philpott is as follows:

♂, 33 mm.; ♀, 36 mm. Head and palpi grey, in ♂ tinged with ochreous. Antennae in S strongly bipectinated. Thorax grey, with dark bar on collar, crests absent. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Legs greyish-ochreous, anterior tarsi blackish annulated with ochreous. Forewings, costa almost straight, apex rounded, termen oblique, evenly rounded; bluish-gxey, tinged with ochreous, in ♀ mixed with blackish-fuscous; a black dot on costa at base, margined broadly with whitish; first line faintly indicated, irregularly dentate, fuscous, margined anteriorly with whitish; second line from 1⁄2 costa to 3⁄5 dorsum, deeply and widely indented on upper half, irregularly dentate on lower half, blackish; a thin dentate fuscous pre-subterminal line, curving beneath reniform and closely approaching second line, thence running parallel with it to dorsum, apex of teeth margined with white; subterminal line obscure, margined anteriorly, in ♂ narrowly, in ♀ broadly, with fuscous; a series of fuscous dots round termen; orbicular circular, pale, interruptedly margined with fuscous; claviform directly beneath orbicular, circular, half as large as, and similar in colouring to, orbicidar; reniform pale, faintly fuscous-margined : cilia ochreous with basal and post-median fuscous lines. …

This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is only found in the central and southern parts of the South Island. Although this species has been collected in Canterbury, this was over 60 years ago with a specimen collected at Arthur's Pass in 1958 and at Bealey River in 1959. It has also not been recollected at the Wilderness Scientific Reserve since 1941.

The life history of this species is unknown as are the host species of its larvae.