Published April 7, 2021 | Version v1
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Abantiades Herrich-Schaffer 1855

  • 1. Biological and Earth Sciences, South Australian Museum, SA 5000, Australia.
  • 2. Biological and Earth Sciences, South Australian Museum, SA 5000, Australia. & University of Adelaide, Biological Sciences, SA 5005, Australia.

Description

Genus Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer, [1855]

Diagnosis:

Simonsen (2018) produced a new diagnosis for the genus. “A patch of elongate scales at the forewing base and the ‘sensory tubercles’ on S2 are both unique and diagnostic for Abantiades.” He also noted that they have hepialine (Dumbleton 1966; Dugdale 1994) venation, and monopectinate antennae that lack scales on the flagellum.

Notes

Published as part of Moore, Michael D., Beaver, Ethan P., Velasco-Castrillón, Alejandro & Stevens, Mark I., 2021, Two new endemicspecies ofAbantiades Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) from Kangaroo Island, Australia, pp. 571-597 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on page 573, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4668500

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References

  • Simonsen, T. J. (2018) Splendid Ghost Moths and their Allies, A Revision of Australian Abantiades, Oncopera, Aenetus, Archaeoaenetus and Zelotypia (Hepialidae). In: Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Vol. 12. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 1 - 300. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / 9781486307487
  • Dumbleton, L. J. (1966). Genitalia, classification, and zoogeography of New Zealand Hepialidae (Lepidoptera). New Zealand Journal of Science, 9 (4), 920 - 981.
  • Dugdale, J. S. (1994) Hepialidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Fauna of New Zealand, Canterbury, New Zealand, 30, 1 - 164.