Anaptilora isocosma Meyrick, 1904 AUTOSTICHINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths have white forewings, each with a black base, a black band across the middle, and black and yellow wingtips. The hindwings are plain grey. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

Queensland.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVIII Gelechiadae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 29 (1904), pp. 390-391, No. 208.

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(written 12 January 2013, updated 16 October 2018, 29 March 2019, 22 April 2021)