Heliodines princeps Meyrick, 1906 HELIODINIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

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

The forewings of the adult moth have brown forewings, each with a dark patch at the base and at the margin, with various scattered silver spots, and a silver arc at the tornus. The hindwings are pale brown, darkening toward the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

The species has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Tineina,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 30 (1906), p. 54.

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(written 19 March 2019)