| (formerly known as Bordaia moesta) HEPIALIDAE, HEPIALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
monochrome grey-scale photo by Norman B. Tindale, listed as Bordaia moesta, tinted digitally,
Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae),
Records of the South Australian Museum, Volume 4, Part 4 (1932), p. 508, fig. 17,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by South Australian Museum.
The moths of his species have dark brown forewings with silvery markings. The hindwings are plain dark brown. The antennae are bipectinate. The moths have a wingspan of about 6 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
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, pp. 55, 58, etc., Plate 33.
Norman B. Tindale,
Revision of the Australian Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae) ,
Records of the South Australian Museum,
Volume 4, Part 4 (1932), p. 508, fig. 17.
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(written 9 September 2016)