Calicotis sialota Turner, 1917 STATHMOPODIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Nick Lambert, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales)

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.

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

The species has been found in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

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

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(written 30 June 2019, updated 8 January 2023)