Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer, [1855]

Moore, Michael D., Beaver, Ethan P., Velasco-Castrillón, Alejandro & Stevens, Mark I., 2020, Description of two new Australian species of Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) and females of two further species with notes on their biogeography, Zootaxa 4822 (1), pp. 71-93 : 73

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 .” He also noted that they have hepialine venation ( Dumbleton 1966; Dugdale 1994), and monopectinate antennae that lack scales on the flagellum.