Vanicela tricolona Meyrick, 1913
ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE,   TINEOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The adult moths of this species have white forewings, each with three long bark brown spots along the hind-margin, and a brown mark at te wingtip. The hindwings are grey. The head and prothorax are white. The antennae are as long as the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.2 cms.

The species occurs in Australia in

  • Queensland.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Exotic Microlepidoptera,
    Volume 1 (1913), p. 81.


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    (written 28 September 2022)