Hypsidia microspila (Turner, 1942) (formerly : Baryphanes microspila) DREPANIDAE,   DREPANOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moth of this species rusty-brown forewings each with a vague partial narrow reddish mid-wing streak. The hindwings are pale rusty-brown. The head and thorax are dark rusty-brown, and the abdomen is paler brown. The forewings have recurved wingtips. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

The species lives in

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Fragmenta lepidopterologica,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 53 (1941), p. 78, No. 43.

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(written 15 April 2019)