Epiphyas asthenopis (Lower, 1902)
 (one synonym is Hyperxena zirophora Turner, 1916)
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Don Herbison-Evans
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Stella Crossley

Epiphyas asthenopis
(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Bruthen, Victoria)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with several vague darker incomplete curved lines, and a broad broken pale line from base to margin. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

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

    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new Australian Geometrina, etc.,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 26 (1902), p. 250.

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    (written 22 January 2017, updated 8 July 2019, 26 September 2020)