LOPHOCORONIDAE, LOPHOCORONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have dark brown forewings each with five broad ragged off-white transverse bands. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 1 cm.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Axel Kallies,
Moths of Victoria: Part 6,
Ghost Moths - HEPIALIDAE and Allies,
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2015, p. 5.
Ebbe S. Nielsen & Niels Peder Kristensen,
The Australian moth family Lophocoronidae
and the basal phylogeny of the Lepidoptera-Glossata,
Invertebrate Taxonomy,
Volume 10 (1996) p. 1207.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | imagoes | caterpillar |
(written 12 August 2019, updated 7 August 2022)