Anepopsia tephraea Turner, 1926 LIMACODIDAE,   ZYGAENOIDEA

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

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

Thi adult moth is pale brown with some variable vague dark markings on each forewing. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Drepanidae, Limacodidae, Zygaenidae.,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 51 (1926), p. 429, No. 27.

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(written 2 January 2019, updated 13 March 2021)