TALEPORIINAE, PSYCHIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (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.
The species has been found in:
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)