Macarangela leucochrysa Meyrick, 1893 ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Daniel Kurek, Binalong Bay, Tasmania)

The adult moths of this species are white, with orange streak along each forewing and another short pair on the thorax. The hindwings are white. The antennae are about as long as the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.

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

The species has been in Australia in

Tasmania.

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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, Number 4 (1892), p. 588, No. 166.

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(written 17 January 2019, updated 13 February 2026)