Labdia chryselectra Meyrick, 1897 (also known as Anatrachyntis terminella) COSMOPTERIGINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

These adult moths have grey forewings, each with bold orange markings, and a broad pale brown terminal band. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

This particular species occurs in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: V,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), p. 344, No. 85.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 22.

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(updated 8 October 2012, 21 July 2019)