OPOSTEGIDAE, NEPTICULOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Dominic Funnell,
Thursday Island, Queensland)
This moth has off-white forewings, each with a brown mark near the middle of the costa, and another near the middle of the hindmargin. The forewing tips are brownish, each with a prominent black dot. The hindwings are white. The moth has a wingspan of about 0.8 cm.
In Australia: this moth has been found in :
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 47 (1923), p. 179.
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(updated 31 December 2018, 31 July 2022)