Carposina loxolopha Turner, 1947 CARPOSINIDAE,   COPROMORPHOIDEA

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

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

The adult moth has variable patchy brown forewings, each commonly with a dark brown spot near the middle, and sometimes one or two vague incomplete white stripes. The hindwings are off-white with darker wingtips. The forewings have sinuous hind-margins. The labial palps are long and hairy. These and the head, thorax and abdomen are off-white. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.7 cms.

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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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. 67.

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(written 3 June 2019, updated 31 July 2021)