Fraus tedi Nielsen & Kristensen, 1989 Ted's Fraus HEPIALIDAE,   HEPIALOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths of this species are greyish brown, with a bent white streak along each forewing. The females are similar to but greyer than the males. The male moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms. The female moths have a wingspan of about 3 cms.

female
(Photo: courtesy of Axel Kallies, Moths of Victoria: Part 6)

The species is found in

Western Australia.

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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.

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(written 14 December 2016, updated 2 April 2020, 9 April 2021)