Ethmia anthracopis (Meyrick, 1902)
 (formerly known as Psecadia anthracopis)
ETHMIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: copyright of Brett and Marie Smith, Ellura Sanctuary, South Australia)

The adult moths of this species have a black thorax with white spots, and white wings, with a pattern of black spots on each forewing and grey-brown wing-tips to the hindwings. 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:

  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera (Oecophoridae),
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 26 (1902), pp. 165-166.

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    (written 2 July 2016, updated 30 March 2019, 12 October 2020)