| PECTINIVALVINAE, NEPTICULIDAE, NEPTICULOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Stella Crossley |
oops: missing abdomen
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| PECTINIVALVINAE, NEPTICULIDAE, NEPTICULOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Stella Crossley |
oops: missing abdomen
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The Caterpillars of this species are leaf-miners, feeding on the flesh between the upper and lower epidermis of leaves of
The adult moths have dark brown forewings, each with an off-white mark half-way along the costa The hindwings are pale brown with broad fringes. The head is yellow and hairy. The thorax is an iridescent blue. The wingspan is about 5 mm.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Robert J.B. Hoare,
A new genus of primitive Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera) from eastern Australia,
with a revised diagnosis of nepticulid subfamilies,
Journal of the Linnean Society of London,
Zoology, Volume 128 (2000), pp. 297-298.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  Moths |  caterpillar |
(written 17 March 2019)