(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

The forewings of the adult moths of this species are pale grey-brown with a black knobbly streak along the length of each forewing separating a pale hind-marginal half from a darker costal half. The hindwings are off-white. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The species is found in

and in Australia in

underside
(Photo: courtesy of John Bromilow, Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory)

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. 16, 235, 243-247.

Peter B. McQuillan, Jan A. Forrest, David Keane, & Roger Grund,
Caterpillars, moths, and their plants of Southern Australia,
Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc., Adelaide (2019), pp. 48-49.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XII Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 10, Number 4 (1886), pp. 775-776, No. 419.

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(written 4 February 2017, updated 25 June 2020)