| HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
This caterpillar lives in a burrow dug to a depth of about 30 cms. The caterpillars are a pest on pastures, as their foodplants include :
The adult moths have marbled brown wings, sometimes with white markings. The males have a wingspan of about 4 cms. The females have a wingspan of about 5 cms.
The species is found in
Various subspecies were proposed by Aurivillus in 1920, including :
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 149.
R.J. Elder,
Larval taxonomy of Oncopera brachyphylla Turner
and its distinction from Oncopera mitocera (Turner),
Queensland Journal of Agriculture and Animal Science,
Volume 27 (1970), pp. 123-128.
Thomas J. Simonsen,
Splendid Ghost Moths and their Allies,
A Revision of Australian Abantiades, Oncopera, Aenetus, Archaeoaenetus and Zelotypia (Hepialidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 12,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2018.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Annals of the Queensland Museum,
Volume 10 (1911), p. 132.
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(updated 3 April 2006, 27 February 2017, 10 April 2021)