Epiphthora miarodes (Meyrick, 1904)
 (one synonym is Epiphthora psolosticta Turner, 1919)
GELECHIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Epiphthora miarodes
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings each with dark speckles and spots. The hindwings are off-white. The wingspan is about 1.4 cm.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Tasmania.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XVIII: Gelechiadae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 29 (1904), pp. 261, 263-264, No. 8.

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    (written 11 July 2022)