Philobota pedetis Meyrick, 1884 Spotty Philobota Philobota impletella Group PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Peter Marriott, Riddells Creek, Victoria)

The forewings of the adult moth of this species are each speckled grey with a scattering of small darker spots, especially around the margin, sometimes a triangular dark mark near the middle of the costa, and a dark band around the base. The hindwings are off-white darkening towards the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

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

The species has been found in

South Australia.

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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.275.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. Part X. Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 8, Part 4 (1884), p. 488, No. 200.

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(written 28 January 2017, updated 14 May 2023)