Amphithera hemerina Turner, 1923 ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Aila Keto, Springbrook, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each crossed by a broad diagonal yellow band, and with yellow areas at the base and the tornus, and with a tiny black spot on the wingtip. The hindwings are grey. The antennae are longer than the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species occurs in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
New Australian Microlepidoptera,
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 47 (1923), p. 175.

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(written 25 October 2019)