| PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth has yellow forewings, each with dark brown areas at the base and around the margin. The hindwings are pale brown darkening toward the wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in
Further Reading:
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of the Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XII,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 69 (1944), p. 268, No. 1822.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 31 July 2023)