(formerly known as Phanaca cossoides) STENOMATINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (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 of this species have brown forewings, each with a variable yellow patch on the hind-margin near the base, and an incomplete transverse white bar. The hindwings are pale fawn, darkening towards the hind-margins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.
The species has been found in:
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
Arthur G. Butler,
Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera, chiefly from Duke-of-York Island and new Britain,
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 5, Volume 10 (1882), p. 229, No. 50.
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(written 28 June 2019, 23 November 2020)