Cirromitra tetratherma (Lower, 1896)
 (previously known as Eulechria tetratherma)
BAREA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Cirromitra tetratherma
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital territory)

The adult moths of this species have black forewings, each with four broad pale yellow stripes. The hindwings are each pale yellow with a dark mark at the wingtip. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in eastern Australia, including:

  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory, 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, pp. 313, 325-326, 328.

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 20 (1896), p. 165.

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    (updated 12 May 2011, 10 January 2015, 15 August 2019)