Oxycanus australis Walker, 1856
 Southern Oxycanus
HEPIALIDAE,   HEPIALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Oxycanus australis
(Photo: courtesy of Joan Fearn, Milton, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings with a variable pattern of white markings, and reddish hindwings and abdomen. The wingspan is about 10 cms.

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

The male moths have long rami, length about 3x their spacing. The females have deeply corrugated antennae.

The species has been found in :

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Axel Kallies,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 6,
    Ghost Moths - HEPIALIDAE and Allies    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2015, pp. 12-13, 26-27.

    Francis Walker,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
    List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
    Part 7 (1856), p. 1574, No. 1.

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    (updated 17 September 2011, 24 January 2026)