Heteromicta tripartitella (Meyrick, 1879) (previously : Aphomia pachytera) GALLERIINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Leuba Ridgway, Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria)

The moth of this species has brown forewings, each with a broad greenish-grey transverse wavy band with some black markings, and light and dark edges. The hindwings are plain pale grey, darkening towards the wingtips. The grey fades to brown in dead specimens. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of Leuba Ridgway, Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria)

The species has been found in Australia in:

Tasmania.

(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 II: Crambites,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 1, Volume 4 (1879), pp. 236-237.

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(written 4 February 2017, updated 30 August 2019, 2 October 2020)