| Kangaroo Island Ghost Moth HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Ethan Beaver,
Kangaroo Island, South Australia)
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| Kangaroo Island Ghost Moth HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of Ethan Beaver,
Kangaroo Island, South Australia)
The caterpillars of this species are thought to feed on the roots of
The male moths have rusty brown forewings, each with various markings including two white flashes. The hindwings are plain rusty brown.
The females also have pale brown forewings, each with two ragged pale flashes, and labarinthine pale markings. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The males have a wingspan of about 10 cms. The females have a wingspan of abou 17 cms.
The species has been found on Kangaroo Island in
Further reading :
Michael D. Moore, Ethan Beaver, Alejandro Velasco-Castrillón, and Mark Stevens,
Two new endemic species of Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Kangaroo Island, Australia,
Zootaxa,
Volume 4951, Part 3 (April 2021) pp. 571–597.
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(written 15 April 2021, updated 5 April 2026)