Calicotis sialota Turner, 1917 STATHMOPODIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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 or four incomplete pale brown transverse bands, sometimes including a brown mark on the wingtip, and a brown line along part of the costa. The hindwings are white sometimes with a pale brown suffusion. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

The species has been found in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 29 (1917), p. 87.

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(written 30 June 2019)