Macrobathra euspila Turner, 1932 COSMOPTERIGINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moths have black forewings with bold pale yellow bands and patches. The hindwings are brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The species occurs in

New South Wales.

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

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. I,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 57 (1932), p. 269, No. 22.

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(written 11 October 2014, updated 20 January 2021)