Hypsidia niphosema (Lower, 1908) (previously known as Monoctenia niphosema) DREPANIDAE,   DREPANOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Ted L. Martin & Stella Crossley

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

The adult moth of this species is brown. The each have two dark-edged pale spots, a submarginal arc or dark dots, a a curved serrated dark line. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the margins. The forewings have recurved wingtips. The wingspan is about 5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
New Australian Lepidoptera. No. XXV,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 32 (1908), p. 114.

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(written 3 January 2020)