Tinea monophthalma (Meyrick, 1893)
 TINEINAE,   TINEIDAE,   TINEOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Tinea monophthalma
(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Melba, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moth of this species has speckled fawn forewings which shade darker toward the wing-tips. The hindwings are similar but paler. The moth has a variable wingspan of about 1 cm.

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

The species has been found in Australia in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Tasmania,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    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 (1891), pp. 531, 543-544, No. 97.

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    (written 27 February 2022)