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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5133.2.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C192D2E8-CE66-4BC6-85BB-D8CA91E9196E
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6521287
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC87A4-FF91-447E-EED6-68A7FD69F88A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
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Genus Abantiades Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 View in CoL

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).