Hobartina eusciera (Turner, 1931) (previously known as Scytrophanes amblyiodes) NOTODONTINAE,   NOTODONTIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Andrew Mitchell, Australian Museum)

The adult moth of this species are fawn or grey, with forewings that have a faint pattern of darker sinuous lines. The hindwings are paler with no pattern, even paler toward the bases, and have slightly recurved margins. The thorax has a pair of hairy dark crests. The wingspan is about 4.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera — Supplementary,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 56 (1931), pp. 331-332.

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(written 20 December 2018, updated 30 January 2021)