OPOSTEGIDAE, NEPTICULOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
This moth has off-white forewings, each with a brown mark 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 0.7 cm.
In Australia: this moth has been found in :
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. III. Tineina,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 5, Number 2 (1880), p. 175.
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(written 20 April 2019)