Machetis plagiozona Turner, 1917 BAREA GROUP OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Maleny, Queensland)

The moths of this species have white forewings each with a broad dark irregular band across the middle, and another along the margin, both of which have expanded middles which touch each other, like an irregular letter 'H'. The hindwings are plain brown. The head is white, and the thorax is black. The wingspan is up to 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in :

New South Wales.

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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. 60.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 41 (1917), pp. 114-115.

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(written 3 September 2018, updated 20 December 2022)