(formerly known as Eulechria sciophanes) 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 moths of this species are off-white, with forewings that each have a brown costal streak and several dark elongated spots. The hindwings are pale brown. The moths reach a wingspan of about 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. 310, 313-314.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. IX. Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 8, Part 3 (1883), pp. 323-324, No. 112.
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(written 31 December 2018)