| TINEINAE, TINEIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
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| TINEINAE, TINEIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)
The Caterpillars of this species are thought to live in a silk case, and to feed on animal products like hair, feathers, and droppings.
The adult moth has black forewings, each with a big white patch on the costa. The hindwings, head, and thorax are off-white. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in
as well as in Australia in
Further reading :
Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993.
Aleksei Konstantinovich Zagulyaev,
New and little known species of Tineidae, Deuterotineidae, Ochsenheimeriidae (Lepidoptera),
Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR,
Volume 52 (1972), p. 352.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 15 September 2012, updated 14 August 2019, 21 November 2020)