Abantiades albofasciatus

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

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

Moth Group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.

Hepialidae family of insects

The Hepialidae are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths.

Western Australia State in Australia

Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres, and the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants – around 11 percent of the national total – of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner, 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.

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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]

Colonel Charles Swinhoe was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India. He was one of the eight founders of the Bombay Natural History Society and a brother of the famous naturalist Robert Swinhoe.

Norman Tindale Australian biologist

Norman Barnett Tindale AO was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.

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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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