Diasceta terpnopis (Turner, 1944) (type labelled Philobota exquisita) OTHER OECOPHORINAE OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ken Harris, Wingan River, Victoria)

The adult moths of this species have yellow forewings that each have a dark brown bar across the middle, a dark brown submarginal band, a dark brown edge to the basal costa, and some dark brown spots. The hindwings are pale plain brown, darkening toward the wingtips. The wingspan is about 1.3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, listed as Diasceta ternopis)

The species has been found in:

Victoria.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia III: The Barea Group and Unplaced Genera (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 8,
CSIRO Publishing, 2000, pp. 390-392.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 69 (1944), pp. 268-269 No. 1824.

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(written 2 December 2018, 10 January 2022)