Philobota cirrhocephala (Turner, 1917)
 (formerly known as Nephogenes cirrhocephala)
PHILOBOTA GROUP
OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Philobota cirrhocephala
(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas John Fisher, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings, each having various dark markings, including a broad dark patch along part of the costa. The hindwings are pale brown darkening at the wingtips. The head is pale yellow, and the thorax brown. The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.

Philobota cirrhocephala
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in Australia in:

  • Queensland.

    The name Philobota cirrocephala Group is applied to a set of related species in the genus Philobota which includes

  • Philobota cirrhocephala, and
  • Philobota trigonosema.
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    Further Reading:

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Oecophorine Genera of Australia II: The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 5,
    CSIRO Publishing, 1997.

    A. Jefferis Turner,
    Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 41 (1917), pp. 96-97.

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    (written 27 November 2018, updated 8 June 2025)