Crocanthes trizona Lower, 1916
 LECITHOCERIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art

The adult moths of this species have wings that are pale brown, with several bent dark lines across each forewing. The wingspan is about 1 cm.


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

The species is found in

  • north Queensland.

    Further reading

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of New Australian Micro-Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 40 (1916), p. 543.

    Buck Richardson,
    Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
    LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 103.

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    (created 20 April 2012, updated 3 May 2012)