| (formerly known as Ocystola asthenes) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moths of this species have brown forewings each crossed by two vague pale bands, and a pale open circle by the margin. The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 1 cm.
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, p. 91.
A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XI,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 69 (1944), p. 56, No. 1594.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 24 November 2022)