| Common Corby HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Blackheath, New South Wales)
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| Common Corby HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Donald Hobern, Blackheath, New South Wales)
These caterpillars are thought to feed on dead leaves.
The adult moths have brown forewings with a pattern of pale and dark splotches. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.
The species is found in eastern Australia, including:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 18.11, p. 149.
Thomas J. Simonsen,
Splendid Ghost Moths and their Allies,
A Revision of Australian Abantiades, Oncopera, Aenetus, Archaeoaenetus and Zelotypia (Hepialidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 12,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2018.
Norman B. Tindale,
Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae) ,
Records of the South Australian Museum,
Volume 5, Part 1 (1932), pp. 33-34, and
figs. 64-65.
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(updated 24 May 2010, 27 November 2023)