Oncopera intricoides Tindale, 1933
 Intricoid Corby
HEPIALIDAE,   HEPIALOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Oncopera intricoides
male
(Photo: courtesy of Lyn Craggs, Tuggeranong, Australia Capitol Territory}

The adult moths have forewings that each with a pattern of light and dark brown outlined in white. The hindwings are plain dark brown. The wingspan of the females is about 6 cms. The wingspan of the males is about 4 cms.

Oncopera intricoides
male, monochrome grey-scale photo by Norman B. Tindale, digitally tinted,
Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae),
Records of the South Australian Museum,
Volume 5 (1933), p. 26, fig. 35,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by South Australian Museum.

The species has been found in south-eastern Australia, including:

  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria, and
  • South Australia.

    Oncopera intricoides
    female, monochrome grey-scale photo by Norman B. Tindale    , digitally tinted,
    Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae),
    Records of the South Australian Museum,
    Volume 5 (1933), p. 26, fig. 36,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by South Australian Museum.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 18.11, p. 149.

    Axel Kallies,
    Moths of Victoria - Part 6,
    Ghost Moths - HEPIALIDAE and Allies    ,
    Entomological Society of Victoria, 2015, pp. 16-17.

    Thomas J. Simonsen,
    Splendid Ghost Moths and their Allies,
    A Revision of Australian Abantiades, Oncopera, Aenetus, Archaeoaenetus and Zelotypia (Hepialidae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 12,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2018.

    Norman B. Tindale,
    Revision of the Australian ghost moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part II,
    Records of the South Australian Museum,
    Volume 5 (1933), pp. 25-27, and figs. 33-36.

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    (written 11 October 2016, updated 15 April 2026)