Enchocrates phaedryntis Meyrick, 1888 DEPRESSARIINAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Jiri Lochman, Lochman Transparences, Mount Roe National Park, Western Australia)

The adult moth of this species has grey or brown forewings each with rusty-red veins and wing edges, and variable dark markings, and a yellow blotch on the middle of the costa. The hindwings are off-white. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Jiri Lochman, Lochman Transparences, Mount Roe National Park, Western Australia)

The species has been found in:

Western Australia.

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

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XIV. Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 2, Part 4 (1888), pp. 929, No. 520 (13a).

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(written 11 April 2019, updated 23 July 2025)