(formerly known as Harmaclona entripta (Meyrick, 1917)) HARMACLONINAE, TINEIDAE, TINEOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)
The adult moth of this species has grey forewings, each with arcs of dark speckles, and with dark splodges near the wingtip and the tornus. The head is covered in fuzzy grey scales, and there are erectable sets of scales just behind the thorax, and along the forewing hind margins. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Donald R. Davis,
A world classification of the Harmacloninae,
a new subfamily of the Tineidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea),
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology,
Volume 597 (1998), pp. i-iii, 1-81.
Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
Tineid Genera of Australia,
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993.
Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 2, Parts 2-3 (1917), pp. 87-89.
Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 50.
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(written 3 December 2014, updated 4 January 2024)