Opostega scoliozona Meyrick, 1915 OPOSTEGIDAE,   NEPTICULOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@outlook.com) and Stella Crossley

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

This moth is white with a black, white or brown head and thorax, and black bases and margins to the forewings. 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.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1 (1915), pp. 351-352.

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(updated 31 March 2013, 1 September 2025)