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 chryserythra (Wingia group)

Crepidosceles exanthema (A Concealer moth)

Crepidosceles glycydora (Crepidosceles glycydora)

Crepidosceles iostephana (Wingia Group)

Crepidosceles orthomochla (Crepidosceles orthomochla)

Crepidosceles timalphes (A Concealer moth)

Crioa hades (Chestnut Crest (Catocalini, Erebinae))

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

Crocanthes glycina (Crocanthes glycina)

Crocanthes micradelpha (A longhorned moth)

Crocanthes prasinopis (A Curved -horn moth)

Crocidolomia (genus) (A Crambid moth)

Crocidolomia pavonana (Croci)

Crocidosema plebejana (Cotton Tipworm Moth)

Crocydopora cinigerella (A Pyralid moth)

Crossophora semiota (A Concealer moth)

Cruria donowani (Crow or Donovan's Day Moth)

Cruria sp. (genus) (Crow)

Cruria synopla (Forest Day-moth)

Cryphaea xylina (Woodland Geometrid)

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