(previously known as Tineodes holophaea)
TINEODIDAE
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
and
Stella Crossley
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
and
Stella Crossley
(Photo: courtesy of
Buck Richardson, Kuranda)
This adult moth has unsplit wings. The wings are dark brown with pale markings. The tips of the forewings are hooked, and the torni angled. The antennae and hindlegs are each longer than the length of a forewing, The moths have a wingspan of about 2 cms.
The species has been found in
There is some confusion over this species and Euthrausta oxyprora as Turner apparently described a female of that species as this one.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, p. 325.
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(updated 5 February 2012)