Barea bathrochorda Turner, 1935
BAREA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Barea bathrochorda
(Photo: courtesy of Tamara Leitch, Morwell National Park, Victoria)

The moths of this species have pale speckled brown forewings, each with a variable pattern of dark patches, creating a vague dark streak along the middle of the wing. The hindwings are plain pale brown. The labial palps are long, and are normally held curving upward in front of the head. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species is native to Australia, occurring in:

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory, and
  • Victoria.

    Barea bathrochorda
    underside
    (Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)


    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. 161.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae: IV,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 60 (1935), p. 328, No. 380.


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    (written 9 November 2017, updated 17 October 2022)