Blastobasis phaeopasta Turner, 1947 BLASTOBASIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Maleny, Queensland)

The adult moths have off-white forewings, each with several dark marks along the costa and around the margin, two dark spots near the middle, and scattered brown marks concentrated into two broken dark diagonal stripes across each forewing. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.7 cms.

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

The species is found in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Contributions to our knowledge of Australian Microlepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 57 (1947), p. 70.

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(written 17 April 2019, updated 10 March 2024)