Oxycanus ephemerous Beaver & Moore, 2020 HEPIALIDAE,   HEPIALOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

male
(Photo: courtesy of Ethan Beaver, South Australia)

The adult male moths have dark brown forewings, each with a darker area along the costa. The hindwings are plain dark brown. The wing bases and meta-thorax are enveloped in rusty brown hairs. The wingspan is about 4.5 cms.

The females are unknown.

The species has been found on :

Kangaroo Island and the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia.

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Further reading :

Ethan Beaver, Michael D. Moore, Alejandro Velasco-Castrillón, Mark I. Stevens,
Three new ghost moths of the genus Oxycanus Walker 1856 from Australia Lepidoptera Hepialidae,
Zootaxa,
Volume 4732, Part 3 (February 2020), pp.351-374.

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(written 1 March 2020)