Oxycanus carus Tindale, 1935 HEPIALIDAE,   HEPIALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ethan Beaver, Armidale, New South Wales)

The adult male moths have yellow-brown wings with yellow-edged dark markings on the forewings. The hindwings are yellow. The wingspan of the males is about 8 cms.

male, monochrome grey-scale photo by Norman B. Tindale,digitally coloured,
Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae) Part III,
Records of the South Australian Museum, Volume 5 (1935), p. 298, fig. 73,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by South Australian Museum.

The species has been found in :

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Norman B. Tindale,
Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae) Part III,
Records of the South Australian Museum,
Volume 5 (1935), pp. 298-299, and fig. 73.

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(written 29 December 2016, updated 4 April 2020)