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 off-white forewings, each with brown speckles, and a very short black line along the costa extending from the base. The hindwings are off-white, each with sub-costal dark stripe. The head and thorax are off-white. The wingspan is about 1.5 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, pp. 111, 118, 120-122.
Edward Meyrick,
Oecophoridae
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1 (1914), pp. 271-272.
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(written 2 February 2022)