Idiophantis habrias Meyrick, 1904 GELECHIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult moths have brown forewings, each with a white area near the base, a dark triangle on the middle of the costa, and a network of yellow lines along the margin. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVIII Gelechiadae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 29 (1904), p. 298, No. 72.

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(written 22 September 2018)