Pyroderces mesoptila Meyrick, 1897 (also known as Anatrachyntis mesoptila) COSMOPTERIGINAE,   COSMOPTERIGIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Peter Hendry, Sheldon, Queensland)

The adult moths have rusty brown forewings, each with scattered white patches and a broad darker band across the middle. The hindwings are dark brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 1 cm.

(Photo: courtesy of Peter Hendry, Sheldon, Queensland)

The species occurs in Australia in

Queensland.

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

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera XVII Elachistidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22 (1897), pp. 347-348, No. 92.

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(written 24 September 2023)