Leprocosma callizona (Meyrick, 1884)
 (formerly known as Pleurota callizona)
BAREA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The moths of this species have yellow forewings, each with brown bands : one across the middle and one along the margin, and brown streaks along part of the costa and parts of the hind-margin. The hindwings are brown. The head is yellow, and the thorax brown. The wingspan is about 1.3 cms.

The species is native to Australia, occurring in:

  • Australian Capital Territory, and
  • Victoria.

    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, pp. 329, 331-332.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XII Oecophoridae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 1, Volume 9 (1884), p. 753, No. 291.

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    (written 3 February 2022)