Elachista delira Kaila, 2011 ELACHISTIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of John Walter, Hepburn, Victoria)

The adult moths of this species have brown speckled wings, each crossed by two vague dark-edged pale bands, and the forewings each have a similar band along the margin. The moths have a wingspan of about 0.6 cm.

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

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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Further reading

Lauri Kaila,
Elachistine Moths of Australia: (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Elachistidae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Vol. 11,
CSIRO Publishing, 2011, p. 224, Figs 3, 4, 291, 292, 428, pl. 15.

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(written 15 July 2022)