(previously known as Porina beltista) HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
female
(Photo: courtesy of
Nick Monaghan, Bunya Mountains, Queensland)
The adult male moths of this species have brown forewings, each sometimes with a pale longitudinal streak or a pale transverse band.
Sometimes the streak or band is fragmented. Sometimes it is missing altogether. Sometimes the forewings also have a scatter of white spots.
The hindwings are brown at the margin usually shading to dark red at the base. The top of the abdomen is also usually dark red. The red colours fade to brown in museum specimens. The wingspan can be around 10 cms.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Peter Hendry,
Oxycanus beltista (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae),
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 70 (September 2013), pp. 31-33.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 50 (1926), p. 155.
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(written 20 December 2013, updated 13 August 2024)