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

Idaea (genus) (A Geometer Moth)

Idaea philocosma (Flecked Wave)

Idiodes apicata (Bracken Moth)

Idiodes siculoides (Straight-winged Bracken Moth)

Iropoca rotundata (Iropoca rotundata)

Isochorista ranulana (A Tortricid moth)

Leistarcha scitissimella (A Timber Moth)

Lepidoscia characota (A Case moth (Psychidae)

Lepidoscia tetramochla (Psychidae)

Leucania diatrecta (A Noctuid moth)

Leucania exarans (Hadeninae)

Leucania obusta (Robust Armyworm)

Limnaecia camptosema (A Cosmet moth (Cosmopteriginae)

Lithilaria proestans (Scupted Bone Moth)

Lithosiini (tribe) (Footman)

Lomera (genus)

Lomera boisduvalii (A Case moth (Psychidae))

Macrobathra melanomitra (A Gelechioid moth)

Maliattha amorpha (Brown Bar Moth)

Maroga melanostigma (Pecan Stem Girdler)

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