Iphierga chrysopa Turner, 1917 TALEPORIINAE,   PSYCHIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Daniel Heald, Wongan Hills, Western Australia)

The adult male moth of this species has black forewings, each crossed by four off-white bars, the outer two broken. The hindwings are black with a central orange blotch. The head is covered in long orange scales. The abdomen is yellow with some black marks. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

Western Australia.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Lepidopterological gleanings,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 29 (1917), p. 102.

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(written 18 January 2019, updated 21 February 2021)