Schrankia capnophanes (Moore, 1939) (previously known as Hypenodes capnophanes) HYPENODINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Victor Fazio, Tinonee, New South Wales)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings each crossed by two fragmented black and white lines. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.7 cms. The labial palps are long and held straight out in front of the head.

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

The species has been found in Australia in:

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
A second revision of the Lepidoptera of Tasmania,
courtesy of the
Library Open Repository, University of Tasmania Library,
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania,
1938, p. 74.

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(written 13 June 2022)