PALAEPHATIDAE, PALAEPHATOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson,
Kuranda, Queensland)
The forewings of the adult moth of this species are pale brown with a scattering of dark dots. The hindwings are plain off-white, darkening toward the hind margins.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 50.14, p. 171.
Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen,
The recently discovered primitive (non-Ditrysian) family Palaephatidae (Lepidoptera) in Australia,
Invertebrate Taxonomy,
Volume 1 (1987), p. 218.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 184.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 47.
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(updated 31 March 2013, 17 August 2018)