Eastern Pale Rain Moth
Male, Palps
Eastern Pale Rain Moth
Pupal Case
| Eastern Pale Rain Moth Male, Palps | | Eastern Pale Rain Moth Pupal Case | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Swift Moth (:Hepialoidea Hepialidae) | ||||
| Species: | Eastern Pale Rain Moth (Abantiades tembyi) | ||||
| This Photo: | Male, ventral | ||||
| Synonym: | Trictena | ||||
Thank you Ethan Beaver for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Very large moth ~55m long, with a wingspan of ~115mm Dark grey with light grey lightening pattern on the wings After discovering the horn on the Forked Grass moth recently, we wanted to clearly show the projections out the front of this species were in fact part of the palps, and not an additional appendage. Ethan told us "tembyi" is in honour of Nick Temby who collected several critical specimens out near Ceduna. The pupal case is not necessarily the same species as the moth; but this is the only Abantiades we've found on Ellura and Ethan says they are very specific about where they live. | |||||
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