(one synonym is Leuroptila tephropasta Turner, 1923) PLUTELLIDAE, YPONOMEUTOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
This adult moth has off-white forewings, each with scattered brown dots which form one or two diagonal bands. The hindwings are off-white shading to pale brown toward the wingtips, with brown veins. The moth has a wingspan of about 1 cm.
The species has been found in Australia in:
Further reading :
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 7, Number 4 (1892), p. 559, No. 122.
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Microlepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 47 (1923), p. 172
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(written 2 November 2018)