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

Crepidosceles timalphes (A Concealer moth)

Crioa hades (Chestnut Crest (Catocalini, Erebinae))

Crocanthes (genus) (A Longhorned Moth (Lecithoceridae))

Crocanthes glycina (Lecithoceridae)

Crocanthes micradelpha (A longhorned moth)

Crocanthes prasinopis (A Curved -horn moth)

Crocidosema plebejana (Cotton Tipworm Moth)

inclined to face downhill

lateral view

dorsal view

Cruria sp. (genus) (Crow)

Cruria synopla (Forest Day-moth)

Cryphaea xylina (Woodland Geometrid)

Female

Male

Female underside

Crypsiphona ocultaria (Red-lined Looper Moth)

Female

Male

Male underside

Cryptoblabes euraphella (Cryptoblabes euraphella)

Cryptophasa (genus) (A Gelechioid moth (Xyloryctidae)

Cryptophasa albacosta (Small Fruit-tree Borer)

Harriet Scott

Cryptophasa gypsomera (White Moth)

Cryptophasa irrorata (A Gelechioid moth (Xyloryctidae))

Cryptophasa rubescens (A Timber Moth)

Cryptophlebia ombrodelta (Litchi Fruit Moth)

Ctenomeristis almella (Almella Frass Moth)

Ctenoplusia limbirena (Scar Bank Gem)

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