Epithetica typhoscia Turner, 1923 HYPERTROPHIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

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

This adult moth has brown forewings each crossed by pale and dark bands and lines. The hindwings are a more uniform brown. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

The species has been found in :

New South Wales.

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Further reading:

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Microlepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 47 (1923), p. 165.

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(written 25 July 2023)