Vanicela tricolona Meyrick, 1913 ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (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 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.

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Further reading :

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

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(written 28 September 2022)