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.


    Further reading :

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


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    (updated 31 March 2013, 17 August 2018)