Opsitycha squalidella (Meyrick, 1884)
 (previously known as Philobota squalidella)
BAREA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Opsitycha squalidella
(Photo: courtesy of Kristi Ellingsen & Tony Daley, Insects of Tasmania)

The adult moth has brown forewings, each with black and white patches. The hindwings are off-white shading to pale brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria,
  • Tasmania,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    Barea dryocoetes (Turner, 1939) appoears to be the same species as this one, and that name is junior to this one, so in future they are both likely to be called Opsitycha squalidella.

    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. 111-116.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera, X Oecophoridae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 1, Volume 8, Part 4 (1884), p. 496, No. 213.

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    (written 13 February 2017, updated 26 November 2024)