Lepidoscia irrorea (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) Mottled Casemoth (previously known as Conoeca irrorea) PSYCHIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

male, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Conoeca irrorea,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXXXVIII, fig. 39,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The adult moths of this species have pale brown forewings, each with about 50 short dark squiggles. The hindwings are brown, darker at the margins. The males are only three quarters the size of the females.

female, lithograph by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Conoeca irrorea,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXXXVIII, fig. 40,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologisher Theil,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 7, and also Plate 138, figs. 39-40.

Scott,
Australian Lepidoptera,
Volume 3 (1865), p. 26, Plate 9.

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(written 31 May 2014, updated 31 January 2021)