Edosa fraudulens (Rosenstock, 1885) (previously known as Tinea fraudulens) PERISSOMASTICINAE,   TINEIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Aranda, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth of this species is dark brown, with a yellow blotch near the margin. and a very broad yellow band across the middle of each forewing. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species is found in eastern Australia, including:

Australian Capital Territory.

drawing by Rudolph Rosenstock, listed as Tinea fraudulens,
Notes on Australian Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new species,
Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, Volume XVI (1885), Plate XI, Fig. 12,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 3.17, p. 185.

Rudolph Rosenstock,
Notes on Australian Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new species,
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 5, Volume 16 (1885), pp. 437-438, No. 842, and also Plate 11, Fig. 12.

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(updated 5 February 2009, 14 August 2019)