Lepidoscia euryptera (Meyrick, 1893)
 (previously known as Xysmatodoma euryptera)
PSYCHIDAE,   TINEOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

The adult of this species is grey, with a speckled pattern of darker grey on the forewings. It has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.


(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Victoria.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 2, Volume 7, Part 4 (1893), pp. 494-495, No. 13.

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    (updated 4 August 2007, 8 April 2014, 15 August 2019)