| Spined Fraus HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Axel Kallies,
Moths of Victoria: Part 6)
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| Spined Fraus HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Axel Kallies,
Moths of Victoria: Part 6)
The adult moths are greyish brown, with two white streaks along each forewing, one strong and long, and one weak and short. The males are similar to but darker than the females. The male moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms. The female moths have a wingspan of about 4 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Axel Kallies,
Moths of Victoria - Part 6,
Ghost Moths - HEPIALIDAE and Allies,
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2015, pp. 8-9.
Ebbe Nielsen & Niels Peder Kristensen
Primitive Ghost Moths : Morphology and Taxonomy of the
Australian Genus Fraus Walker
(Lepidoptera: Hepialidae s. lat.)
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 1,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 1989.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 14 December 2016)