HELIODINIDAE, YPONOMEUTOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The forewings of the adult moth are a metallic brown with various metallic coloured markings including a gold area around the margin of each forewing containing a face; well: two silver spots for eyes, and a silver arc for a mouth. The hindwings are rather narrow, and are plain brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera XIX Plutellidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32 (1907), p. 95, No. 156.
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(written 19 March 2019)