Oxycanus australis Walker, 1856
 Southern Oxycanus
HEPIALIDAE,   HEPIALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Oxycanus australis
(Photo: courtesy of Joan Fearn, Milton, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings with a variable pattern of white markings, and reddish hindwings and abdomen. The wingspan is about 10 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Axel Kallies,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 6,
    Ghost Moths - HEPIALIDAE and Allies    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2015, pp. 12-13, 26-27.

    Francis Walker,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 7 (1856), p. 1574, No. 1.

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    (updated 17 September 2011, 29 July 2020)