| (formerly known as Elaeonoma anisochroa) BAREA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have dark brown forewings, each crossed by two incomplete pale bands. There ia also a pale collar behind the thorax. The hindwings are brown. The wingspan is about 1.8 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in:
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia III:
The Barea Group and Unplaced Genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 8,
CSIRO Publishing, 2000, p. 158.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. IV,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 60 (1935), p. 335, No. 413.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 14 December 2021)