HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Aila Keto,
Springbrook, Queensland)
The adult moths of this species have grey-brown forewings with variable patterns of vague pale patches and white spots. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 10 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. 303, and figs. 30, 79.
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(written 19 October 2019)