(formerly known as Phloeopola zygophora) BAREA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Marilyn Hewish,
Anglesea, Victoria)
The moths of this species have speckled off-white forewings, each with three or four dark brown or black transverse often fractured zig-zag bands. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.8 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in :
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.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XV: Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 3, Part 4 (1889), p. 1592, No. 614 (139a).
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(written 15 January 2017, updated 15 August 2019, 7 January 2021, 10 January 2022)