Heterozyga coppatias Meyrick, 1885
 CHEZALA GOUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Heterozyga coppatias
(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths of this species have grey forewings each with dark lines and a dark spot. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in :

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Oecophorine Genera of Australia II: The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
    CSIRO Publishing, 1997, pp. 55-59.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera: Part XII.,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 9, Part 43 (1884), p. 1049.

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    (updated 17 May 2009, 22 October 2018, 11 December 2020)