Abantiades albofasciatus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hepialidae |
| Genus: | Abantiades |
| Species: | A. albofasciatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Abantiades albofasciatus (C. Swinhoe, 1892)[1]
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Abantiades albofasciatus is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is endemic to Western Australia.[2]
Description[edit]
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[edit]
See the Australian National Insect Collection: Specimen 10ANIC-09721 collected at Regan Ford, Western Australia by S. Cotter and K. Detchon on 29 April 2004.
Taxonomy[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ a b c d Swinhoe, C. 1892. Sphinges and Bombyces, Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera - Oxford University Museum, Clarendon Press, Part 1, pp. 289-290, No. 1343.
- ^ ABRS 2009. Australian Faunal Directory: Abantiades albofasciatus. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
- ^ a b c * Tindale, N.B. 1928-1932. Revision of the Australian ghost moths (Lepidoptera, Homoneura, family Hepialidae). Part I, Vol 4 pp 497-536 (p.533), Records of the South Australian Museum. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
- ^ a b Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (2 February 2020). "Abantiades albofasciatus (Swinhoe, 1892)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
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