Abantiades albofasciatus

Abantiades albofasciatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Hepialidae
Genus:Abantiades
Species: A. albofasciatus
Binomial name
Abantiades albofasciatus
(Swinhoe, 1892)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pielus albofasciatus Swinhoe, 1892

Abantiades albofasciatus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is endemic to Western Australia.[2]

Description

The head, thorax, and forewings are a brown tinged with pink.[1] The hindwings and the abdomen are grey, and are both covered with white hairs. The legs are greyish brown, but pinkish below.[1] The antennae are dark brown.[3] Each forewing has a ragged white stripe from base to margin, a thin submarginal white line, and various faint labyrinthine markings.[4] The males' wingspan is about 10 centimetres (4 in), the females' about 15 centimetres (6 in).[4] The female is similar to the male, but with more conspicuous wing markings.[3]

Specimen image

See the Australian National Insect Collection: Specimen 10ANIC-09721 collected at Regan Ford, Western Australia by S.Cotter, K.Detchon on 29 April 2004.

Taxonomy

A. albofasciatus was first described as Pielus albofasciatus by Charles Swinhoe in 1892,[1] and this was revised by Norman Tindale in 1932 to Abantiades albofasciatus.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Swinhoe, C. 1892. Sphinges and Bombyces, Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera - Oxford University Museum, Clarendon Press, Part 1, pp. 289-290, No. 1343.
  2. ↑ ABRS 2009. Australian Faunal Directory: Abantiades albofasciatus. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  3. 1 2 3
  4. 1 2 Coffs Harbour Butterfly House Abantiades albofasciatus (Swinhoe, 1892) Retrieved 29 June 2018.



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