Philobota futilis Meyrick, 1920 Philobota mathematica Group PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species are small, reaching only a span of 1.5 cms. They have white forewings with variable brown marks, particularly around the edges. The hindwings are brown, and the underside are dark brown.

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

The species has been found in Australia in:

Queensland.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

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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, p. 281.

Edward Meyrick,
Oecophoridę,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 2, Part 12 (1920), p. 383.

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(written 5 November 2012, updated 20 October 2018)