Moth (Lepidoptera) field guide

Useful references:

• CSIRO's Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) - Australian Moths Online
• Don Herbison-Evans web pages:
  • Moths of Australia
  • Australian caterpillars and their butterflies and moths

In the notes provided about individual species, semi-technical terms are sometimes used.  They are briely explained below.

Labial palpi.  These are paired appendages extending from the lower part of the head, on either side of the proboscis.  They provide important information about the family of the moth.

Parts of a moth’s wing:

  Costa:  The leading edge of the wing

  Inner margin:  The trailing edge of the wing

  Termen:  The outer margin of the wing, connecting the costa to the inner margin

  Apex:  The leading tip of the wing, where the costa and termen meet

  Tornus:   The trailing corner of the wing, where the termen and inner margin meet

  Cilia.  Long hairy scales along an edge of the wing

Ctenoplusia albostriata (Eastern Streaked Looper)

Ctenoplusia limbirena (Scar Bank Gem (Plusiinae))

Ctenoplusia near albostriata (A Noctuid moth (Plusiinae))

Culama australis (A Wood moth (Cossidae))

Culama glauca (A Wood moth)

Culladia cuneiferellus (Crambinae moth)

View of the grey hindwing with a whitish inner margin.

Cyclotorna egena (An Ant worm (Cyclotornidae)

Cyneoterpna wilsoni (Cyneoterpna wilsoni)

Male

Female

Male underside

Dascia sagittifera (A Stem Borer moth (Lyonetiidae))

Dasygaster (genus) (A Noctuid moth (Noctuinae))

Dasygaster ligniplena (Xylina ligniplena) (A Noctuid moth (Hadeninae))

Dasygaster melambaphes (Black-0n-black Armyworm)

Dasygaster padockina (Tasmanian Cutworm)

Dasypodia cymatodes (Northern old lady moth)

Dasypodia selenophora (Southern old lady moth)

Decatopseustis cataphanes (A Gelechioid moth (Pexicopiinae))

Delexocha ochrocausta (Chezala Group)

Destolmia lineata (Streaked Notodontid Moth)

Detounda leptoplasta (Broad-winged Moth (Chloephorinae)

Paul Whitington, Wonboyn

Deuterarcha xanthomela (A Crambid moth (Spilomelinae))

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