Pararsia marmorea (Lower, 1897)
 (one synonym is Tanyzancla ochrosema Turner, 1944
CHEZALA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

This adult moth has white forewings each with a variable pattern of brown lines and spots. The brown colour in some specimens has expanded to cover the costal half of the forewing. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the wing-tips. The head and thorax are white. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in:

  • Queensland.

    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. 59, 66-70.

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 21 (1897), p. 54.

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    (written 1 February 2022)