| (previously known as Ocystola leucostemma) 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 moth of this species have pale yellow forewings, each with a dark brown markings, including a short dark brown stripe at the base along the costa. The head is white, and the thorax yellow. The wingspan is about 1.4 cms.
The species has been found 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. 272-275.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera Oecophoridae X,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 66 (1941), p. 402, No. 1325.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 3 February 2022)