Octasphales eubrocha Turner, 1917 DEPRESSARIINAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

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

The adult moth of this species has grey-brown forewings, each with dark speckles, a vague bulging pale band across the middle, three dark marks on the costa, and a set of dark dashes along the very curved margin. The hindwings are pale grey-brown.The antennae are each as long as a forewing. The wingspan is about 1.5 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 :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 41 (1917), p. 120.

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(written 26 June 2025)