Machaeritis lechriomochla (Turner, 1944)
 BAREA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Machaeritis lechriomochla
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The moths of this species have white forewings, each crossed by two fragmented interconnected brown bars, and also have a ragged brown band along the margin. The hindwings are off-white shading brownish at the wing-tips. The wingspan is about 1.7 cms.

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

The species is found in Australia, including:

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

    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. 420, 424.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of the Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae, XII,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 69 (1944), p. 52, No. 1567.

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    (written 5 February 2022)