| HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male, monochrome grey-scale drawing by R.A. Veale, in Norman B. Tindale,
Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae) Part III,
Records of the South Australian Museum, Volume 5 (1935), p. 303, fig. 78,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by South Australian Museum.
The adult male moths have grey-brown wings with very variable patterns of white markings on the forewings and some yellow marks at the forewing bases. The hindwings are plain grey-brown. The wingspan of the males is about 10 cms.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Norman B. Tindale,
Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths
(Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae) Part III,
Records of the South Australian Museum,
Volume 5 (1935), pp. 302-303, and figs. 29, 78.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 29 December 2016)