Brachyzancla lissodes Turner, 1936 CHEZALA GOUP OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Victor W Fazio III, Tinonee, New South Wales)

The adult moth of this species has streaky grey forewings, each with a prominent white streak which is punctuated by one or two black spots. The hindwings are pale grey, shading to brownish at the wingtips. The head and the thorax are grey. The moth has a wing span of about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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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. 35-36, 39.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 61 (1936), pp. 314-315, No. 510.

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(written 14 December 2018, updated 16 October 2024)