Opostegoides gephyraea (Meyrick, 1881)
(previously known as Opostega gephyraea)
OPOSTEGIDAE,   NEPTICULOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

This moth is white with variable brown markings. The moth has a wingspan of about 6 mms.


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

In Australia: this moth has been found in :

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. III. Tineina,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 5, Part 2 (1880), p. 176.


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    (updated 31 March 2013, 17 August 2018)