Hexadactilia civilis Meyrick, 1921
 DEUTEROCOPINAE,   PTEROPHORIDAE,   PTEROPHORIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Donald Hobern & Stella Crossley

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

The adult moth of this species is brown with some dark and some pale markings on the wings. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Queensland.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Exotic Microlepidoptera,
    Volume 2 (1920), pp. 417-418.

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    (written 3 April 2019)