Barea subviridella (Turner, 1896)
(formerly known as Phloeopola subviridella)
BAREA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Barea subviridella
(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Churchill, Victoria)

The moths of this species have off-white forewings, each with four greenish-black vague fractured transverse zig-zag bands. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in :

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.


    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. 170.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Descriptions of Micro-lepidoptera from Queensland,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 20 (1896), p. 15.


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    (written 15 January 2017, updated 15 August 2019, 30 August 2021)