| (formerly known as Ptilophora insignis) ANTHELINAE, ANTHELIDAE, BOMBYCOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
drawing by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, listed as Ptilophora insignis,
Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropäischer Schmetterlinge,
Regensburg : G.J. Manz (1856), Plate 103, fig. 459,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.
The male adult moths of this species are rusty brown, with a dark line across each wing, and with huge feathery antennae.
The status of this species and the distinctions between this and other Pterolocera species are unclear. It may also be a complex of several species.
Further reading :
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer,
Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropäischer Schmetterlinge,
(Collection of new or little-known non-European Butterflies),
Regensburg : G.J. Manz (1856), Series I, Volume 1, Part 3 (1856), p. 83, No. 459,
and also
Plate 103, fig. 439.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 17 August 2015, updated 11 May 2019)