Erebus crepuscularis

Erebus crepuscularis
	Female
	Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Erebus
Species:	E. crepuscularis
Binomial name
	Erebus crepuscularis; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	List Erebus albicrustata(L. B. Prout, 1919) ; Nyctipao albicrustataL. B. Prout, 1919 ; Erebus dentifascia(Walker, 1865) ; Nyctipao dentifasciaWalker, 1865 ; Erebus obscura(Bethune-Baker, 1906) ; Erebus meforensis(A. E. Prout, 1924) ; Nyctipao meforensisA. E. Prout, 1924 ; Erebus phaea(Turner, 1933) ; Nyctipao phaeaTurner, 1933 ; Erebus saparaeaSwinhoe, 1918 ; Erebus speciosusHulstaert, 1924 ; Erebus leucotaenia(Guenée, 1852) ; Nyctipao leucotaeniaGuenée, 1852 ; Nyctipao deochrataGaede, 1938 ; Nyctipao subobscuraGaede, 1938 ;

Last updated August 18, 2025

Erebus crepuscularis is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.^[1] It is found in Indonesia, New Guinea, Taiwan (including Green Island and Orchid Island ^[2]) and the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales.^[3]

References

↑ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Erebus crepuscularis (Linnaeus 1758)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016.
↑ Wu, S.; Ma, C.-H.; Fu, C.-M.; Hsu, H.-C. (2022). "On the First Record of Erebus crepuscularis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Lanyu and Green Island (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Erebinae)" (PDF). Taiwanese Journal of Entomological Studies. 7 (1): 1–6.
↑ Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (3 June 2018). "Erebus crepuscularis (Linnaeus, 1758)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 7 December 2019.

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[1] Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Erebus crepuscularis (Linnaeus 1758)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016.

[2] Wu, S.; Ma, C.-H.; Fu, C.-M.; Hsu, H.-C. (2022). "On the First Record of Erebus crepuscularis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Lanyu and Green Island (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Erebinae)" (PDF). Taiwanese Journal of Entomological Studies. 7 (1): 1–6.

[3] Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (3 June 2018). "Erebus crepuscularis (Linnaeus, 1758)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 7 December 2019.

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