| (one synonym : Coesyra grammophora Lower, 1897) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian McMillan,
Imbil, Queensland)
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| (one synonym : Coesyra grammophora Lower, 1897) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Ian McMillan,
Imbil, Queensland)
The adult moth has an orange head and thorax, and dark brown forewings, each with three partial white bars across each wing. The hindwings are pale brown fading to white at the bases. The wingspan is up to 2 cms.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Oecophorine Genera of Australia I:
The Wingia Group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae),
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Volume 3,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1994, pp. 169.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera IX Oecophoridae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 8, Part 3 (1883), p. 333.
Oswald B. Lower,
Descriptions of New Species of Australian Lepidoptera, with Notes on Synonomy,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 22, Part 1 (1897), p. 21.
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(written 23 October 2014, updated 5 October 2018)