(formerly known as Narycia confluens) PSYCHIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson,
Melba, Australian Capital Territory)
The male and female adult moths of this species have black or dark brown forewings, each with five off-white transverse bands (one broken). The hindwings are grey with an off-white submarginal arc. The head has a pale yellow tuft of scales. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
A second revision of the Lepidoptera of Tasmania,
courtesy of the
Library Open Repository, University of Tasmania Library,
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania,
1939, p. 103.
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(written 27 January 2019, updated 2 March 2021)