Thomintarra primaeva (Meyrick, 1893)
 (previously known as Scardia primaeva)
TINEINAE,   TINEIDAE,   TINEOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Thomintarra primaeva
(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas Fisher, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has dark banded forewings which each have some orange tinting, a pale area along the hind-margin with some raised scales, and a pale area by the wingtip. The hindwings are brown with a purple sheen. The head has a black dorsal scale tuft. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.

    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. 524-525, No. 66.

    Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
    Tineid Genera of Australia,
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993, pp., figs. 195-203, 209, 229, 235.

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    (updated 14 September 2012, 14 August 2019, 22 November 2020, 28 May 2021, 13 June 2022)