Glyphipterix acinacella Meyrick, 1882 GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

(Photo : courtesy of Nick Monaghan)

The adult moths of this species are black or brown with an iridescent silver line across part of each forewing, and plain brown hindwings. The wingspan is about 0.6 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Victoria.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. VII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7, Part 2 (1882), p. 193.

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(updated 3 April 2011, 19 January 2023)