Simplicia armatalis (Walker, [1866]) Crescent Moth (one synonym : Herminia delicata T.P. Lucas, 1892) HERMINIINAE EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

The adult moth of this species is brown, with a shaded white concave curved line across the margin of each forewing, and a shaded white straight line along the margin of each hindwing. The adult moth has a wing span of about 3 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The moth normally rests with the wings flat, the forewings covering the hindwings, so that the curved lines along the margin of each forewing are aligned to give a continuous circular arc. Also it holds it mouthparts together and sticks them up in font of its face.

Specimens have been taken in

Victoria.

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Further reading :

Thomas P. Lucas,
On 34 new species of Australian Lepidoptera, with additional localities,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 8 (1892), p. 90.

Peter Marriott,
Moths of Victoria - Part 2,
Tiger Moths and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (A),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2009, pp. 30-31.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 34, Supplement 4 (1866), p. 1173.

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(updated 9 April 2013, 27 October 2020)