Glyphipterix amblycerella (Meyrick, 1882) GLYPHIPTERIGIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Paul Hadobas, Borough, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each with six short silver stripes on the costa, and a short black bar near the middle, and two short white stripes on the hind-margin. The hindwings are plain dark brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 1.3 cms.

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

The species has been found in

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. VII. Revisional,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 7, Part 2 (1882), p. 189.

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(written 20 November 2022, updated 31 March 2024)