Analytarcha colleta (Meyrick, 1893) (previously known as Tinea colleta) MYRMECOZELINAE,   TINEIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Victor Fazio, Tinonee, New South Wales)

The adult moth of this species has pale yellowish brown forewings, each with a ragged dark stripe along the centre from base to tornus, forking to similar shorter bands to the wingtip and along the margin. The hindwings are pale brown with a reddish tinge. 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 eastern Australia in:

Tasmania.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Series 2, Volume 7, Part 4 (1892), p. 539, No. 87.

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(written 10 January 2019, updated 22 November 2020)