Bathrosterra calotropha (Meyrick, 1883) (previously known as Eulechria calotroph) WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Ian McMillan, Imbil, Queensland)

This adult moth has off-white forewings each with a variety of dark brown markings. The head is topped by white scales, and the prothorax is dark brown. The hindwings are plain pale brown.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The eggs are oval with a length of about 0.7 mm, and are covered in a microscopic square mesh.

The species has been found in :

New South Wales.

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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. 21, 281, 290-294, figs. 542, 548.

Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. VIII. Oecophoriidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 7, Part 4 (1883), p. 512, 536-537. No. 95.

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(writtem 23 January 2022)