Phalangitis tumultuosa Meyrick, 1907
 PLUTELLIDAE,   YPONOMEUTOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Phalangitis tumultuosa
oops: it has lost its abdomen
(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 brown spots which are particularly dense along the hind-margin, and on the costa near the wingtip.. The hindwings are white, shading to pale brown at the wingtips. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.2 cms.

The species has been found in Australia in:

  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, and
  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australasian Micro-lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 32 (1907), p. 137, No. 270.

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    (written 22 April 2019)