Grammodes ocellata

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| authority = Tepper, 1890

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  • Grammodes excellens Lucas, 1893
  • Prodotis excellens (Lucas, 1893)

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Grammodes ocellata, the large-eyed box-owlet,{{cite web |last1=Herbison-Evans |first1=Don |last2=Crossley |first2=Stella |name-list-style=amp |date=7 November 2019 |url=http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/cato/ocellata.html |title=Grammodes ocellata Tepper, 1890 |website=Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths |accessdate=6 December 2019}} is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by J. G. O. Tepper in 1890.Poole, R. W. (1989). [http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov:591/spod/catalogue/search.html Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923061315/http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov:591/spod/catalogue/search.html |date=September 23, 2009}}. CRC Press. {{ISBN|978-0-916846-45-9}}. It is found in the northern half of Australia.

The wingspan is about 40 mm.

The larvae feed on Phyllanthus maderaspatanus.

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