Bondia maleficana Meyrick, 1882 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 dark brown forewings, each with an obscure pattern. The hindwings are off-white, darkening toward the wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.3 cms.

The species occurs in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. VII. Revisional.,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7 (1882), p. 183, No. 3.

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(written 28 December 2018)