Eucryptogona trichobathra Lower, 1901 ERIOCOTTIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

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

The adult moths of this species are brown with a dark streak at the base, and a two-tone spot near the middle of each forewing. The hindwings are pale brown. The thorax has two reddish hair tufts. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species has been found in :

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptons of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 25 (1901), p. 98.

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(written 4 April 2017)