Hobartina amblyiodes (Turner, 1931)
Hobart Notodontid
 (previously known as Scytrophanes amblyiodes)
NOTODONTINAE,   NOTODONTIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Hobartina amblyiodes
female
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania )

The adult moth of this species has fawn or grey forewings with a faint pattern of darker sinuous lines.

Hobartina amblyiodes
female
(Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald, Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania )

The hindwings are paler with no pattern, even paler toward the bases, and have recurved margins. Both sexes have pectinated antennae. The moths can erect a prominent crest of scales behind the head. The wingspan is about 5 cms.

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

The species is found in

  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania, and
  • Western Australia.

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

    Further reading :

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria: part 2,
    Tiger Moths and their Allies - Noctuoidea (A)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 12-13.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera — Supplementary,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 56 (1931), p. 330.

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    (updated 7 April 2013, 5 August 2019)