(formerly: Narycia tetramochla) PSYCHIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have off-white forewings, each with five brown transverse bands, two of them joining on the hind-margin, and a brown stripe along the basal area of the costa. The hindwings are off-white, each with vague shadows of two brown stripes and a brown wingtip. The head is white and the thorax dark brown. The wingspan of the male moth is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Microlepidoptera.,
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 47 (1923), p. 190.
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(written 10 April 2019)