Telanepsia stictocrossa (Turner, 1939)
 (previously known as Leptocroca stictocrossa)
CHEZALA GOUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Telanepsia stictocrossa
(Photo: courtesy of Wendy Moore, Freshwater Creek, Victoria)

The adult moth of this species has grey-brown forewings, each with a number of dark spots. Sometimes there is a ragged pale patch extending along part of the hind-margin. The hindwings are brown. The head and thorax are dark brown.

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

The species has been found in

  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, and
  • Tasmania.

    Further reading :

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    A second revision of the Lepidoptera of Tasmania,
    courtesy of the
    Library Open Repository, University of Tasmania Library,
    Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania,
    1939, p. 86.

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    (written 14 June 2025)