Parochmastis styracodes Meyrick, 1917 HAPSIFERINAE,   TINEIDAE,   TINEOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Nicholas Fisher, Lismore, New South Wales)

The adult moths of this species have speckled brown forewings, each with three vague pale split transverse bars, and some vague orange patches along the margin and hind-margin. The hindwings are pale brown with darker brown wingtips. The moths have a wingspan of about 1 cm.

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

The species has been reported in Australia in

New South Wales.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 2 (1917), p. 86.

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(written 24 May 2019, updated 22 November 2020)