Lepidoscia melitora Meyrick, 1893 PSYCHIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Nanga Brook, Western Australia)

The adult moths of this species have white or yellow forewings, each with several irregular broken dark brown transverse bands. The hindwings are grey-brown. The head is yellow, the thorax brown, and the abdomen yellow. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Nanga Brook, Western Australia)

The species has been found in

Western Australia.

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

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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. 509-510, No. 40.

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(written 28 January 2019, updated 12 August 2022)