(one synonym: Coesyra ingrata Meyrick, 1913) PHILOBOTA GROUP OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Tas56,
Sandford, Tasmania)
The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings with scattered brown markings. The hindwings are off-white. The head is white and the thorax brown. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.
The species has been found in Australia in:
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, pp. 331-334, 338.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XII. Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
Series 1, Volume 10, Number 4 (1888), pp. 770-771, No. 406.
Edward Meyrick,
Oecophoridae
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 1 (1915), p. 117.
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(written 10 March 2019, updated 10 January 2022)