Metapherna salsa (Meyrick, 1920)
 (previously known as Mesopherna salsa)
MYRMECOZELINAE,   TINEIDAE,   TINEOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Graeme Cocks, Townsville, Queensland)

The adult moth of this species has off-white forewings speckled with greyish brown dots. The head has a tuft of long white scales. The wingspan is about 2 cms.


(Photo: courtesy of Marko Mutanen and the Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species is found in Australia in

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Victoria, and
  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Exotic Microlepidoptera,
    Volume 2 (1920), p. 353.

    Gaden S. Robinson & Ebbe S. Nielsen,
    Tineid Genera of Australia,
    Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 2,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1993.

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    (written 6 September 2012, updated 18 January 2025)