Phalangitis triaria Meyrick, 1907 PLUTELLIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA

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

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

The adult moth of this species has off-white forewings, each with a brown line along the costa, and a wide brown area along the hind-margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.8 cms.

The species has been found in Australia in:

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 32 (1907), pp. 137-138, No. 271.

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(written 8 August 2022)