ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE, 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 are white, with orange streak along each forewing having a dark dot on it about 2/3rds the way along it, and several more at the wingtip. The hindwings are white, each shading to pale brown along the costa. The antennae are a little shorter than the length of the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.6 cms.
The species occurs in Australia in
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. 589, No. 168.
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(written 17 January 2019)