Ardozyga loxodesma (Meyrick, 1904)
 (formerly known as Prodosiarcha loxodesma)
GELECHIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Ardozyga loxodesma
(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Melba, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths have brown forewings each with a vague dark diagonal band across the middle. The hindwings are pale yellow shading to brown at the wing-tips. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.

Ardozyga loxodesma
(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,
  • Australian Capital Territory, and
  • South Australia.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVIII: Gelechiadae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 29 (1904), pp. 330-331, No. 114.

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    (written 22 March 2021)