Octasphales chorderes Meyrick, 1902 DEPRESSARIINAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas John Fisher, Lismore, New South Wales)

The adult moth of this species has grey-brown forewings, each with two dark spots, a dark-edged pale area by the thorax, and an indistinct pale median band separating a dark marginal half. The hindwings are pale grey-brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera (Oecophoridae),
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 26 (1902), p. 161.

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(written 25 June 2025)