Abantiades sericatus Tindale, 1932
HEPIALIDAE,   HEPIALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Abantiades sericatus
(Photo: courtesy of Felix Fleck, Peaceful Bay, Western Australia)

The moths of this species basically have white forewings with several orange ringed navy-blue eyespots, and complex brown marginal and submarginal bands edged with black and orange. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The head and thorax are black or grey, and the abdomen is brown.

Abantiades sericatus
Female
(Photo: courtesy of Mark Heath, near Walpole, Western Australia)

The male moths have unipectinate antennae. The wingspan is about 7 cms.

The species is found in

  • Western Australia


    Further reading :

    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.

    Norman B. Tindale,
    Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae) ,
    Records of the South Australian Museum,
    Volume 4, Part 4 (1932), pp. 513-514, figs. 27, 28.


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    (updated 23 May 2010, 10 June 2023)