Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer, 1855

Moore, Michael D., Beaver, Ethan P., Bradford, Tessa, Hutchinson, Paul M., Kay, Paul, Temby, Nick, Hamon, Howard & Stevens, Mark I., 2022, Two new species of WesternAustralian Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera Hepialidae) and a description of the female of Abantiades paradoxa (Tindale), Zootaxa 5133 (2), pp. 201-225 : 203

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 ”. The genus also has hepialine ( Dumbleton 1966; Dugdale 1994) venation, and monopectinate antennae that lack scales on the flagellum (as noted by Simonsen (2018) and Moore et al. 2020a).