| HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male, digitally coloured 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. 302, fig. 77,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by South Australian Museum.
The adult male moths have yellow-brown wings with yellow markings on the forewings. The hindwings are dark brown, each with a yellow costa. The wingspan of the males is about 9 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), p. 302, and figs. 28, 77.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 29 December 2016, updated 3 April 2020)