Erebus macrops, the common owl-moth, is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1768.

[2] The wingspan is about 12 cm,[2] making it exceptionally large for an Erebidae species.

Male with costal half of hindwing aborted to form turned over on the upper surface and containing a large glandular patch of flocculent (woolly) hair.

Forewings with short sub-basal and waved antemedial and medial black lines.

Two irregularly waved postmedial lines excurved round the ocellus and bent inwards below it, the outer one expanding into a patch at costa.