Scorpiopsis rhodoglauca Meyrick, 1930 DEPRESSARIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson Kuranda, Queensland)

The moths of this species have rusty brown forewings covered in white spots of various sizes. The hindwings are pink fading to white at the bases. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species is found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 3 (1930), p. 620.

Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 51.

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(written 17 July 2015)