Pantydia canescens Walker, 1869
 (one synonym : Pachnobia australiae Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Oblique-lined Pantydia
EREBINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
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Stella Crossley

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

The adult moths of this species are greyish brown, with a variable faint pattern including a thin pale submarginal line accompanied by some black spots on each forewing.

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

The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in

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

    Pantydia canescens
    female, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Pachnobia australiae    ,
    Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
    Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXI, fig. 27,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

    Further reading :

    Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
    Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
    Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
    Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 15, and also Plate 111, fig. 27.

    Peter Marriott,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 8,
    Night Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA(B)    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2017, pp. 22-23.

    Francis Walker,
    Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera,
    E.W. Janson, London, 1869, p. 72, No. 20.

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    (updated 30 November 2012, 25 March 2019, 27 July 2021)