Thalamarchella cyphopleura (Turner, 1946) (formerly known as Machimia cyphopleura) DEPRESSARIINAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of David Fischer, Malanda, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has off-white forewings each with various dark brown markings, including a thin brown line along the costa and around the margin, two broad irregular transverse bands, and a submarginal arc of dark spots. The hindwings are off-white, shading to brown at the wingtips. 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:

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Alfred Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae, XIII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 70 (1946), pp. 112-113, No. 2071.

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(written 24 July 2025)