Thyromorpha stibaropis Turner, 1917 DEPRESSARIINAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas John Fisher, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with two black or dark-edged white dots, and variable vague broad diagonal bands leading to a dark area along the hind-margin. The hindwings are pale grey-brown. The wingspan is about 2.5 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 :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 41 (1917), p. 108.

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(written 30 June 2025)