Atheropla crocea Turner, 1939
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OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Atheropla crocea
(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Churchill, Victoria)

The moths of this species are pale brown with a number of black spots on each forewing, and dark margins to all the wings. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.

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

The species has been found in Australia in :

  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.

    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Oecophorine Genera of Australia II: The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
    CSIRO Publishing, 1997, 387-388.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae VIII,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 64 (1939), p. 66, No. 971.

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    (written 12 January 2017, updated 21 October 2018, 8 November 2019, 25 October 2020)