Opostega xenodoxa Meyrick, 1893 OPOSTEGIDAE,   NEPTICULOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (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 an incomplete brown band across the middle, and a brown band along the margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The moth has a wingspan of about 0.6 cm.

In Australia: this moth has been found in :

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 7, Part 4 (1893), p. 608, No. 200.

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(updated 31 December 2018)