Zacorus carus Butler, 1882 WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of Wandiyali Images, Wandiyali-Environa Conservation Area, New South Wales)

The adult moth of this species has white forewings. The hindwings are pale brown darkeming at the wing-tips.

(Photo: courtesy of Donald Hobern, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory)

The antennae, palps, legs, head and thorax are white. The abdomen is dark grey fading to white toward the tip, with a white tuft on the tip. The proximal parts of palps and legs are covered in white hairs. The moth has a wingspan of about 3 cms.

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

The species is found in the eastern half of Australia, including:

Tasmania.

showing undersides
(Photo: courtesy of Wandiyali Images, Wandiyali-Environa Conservation Area, Australian Capital Territory)

This species is remarkably similar to Thema holoxesta.

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Further reading :

Arthur G. Butler,
On a small collection of Lepidoptera from Melbourne,
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Fifth Series, Volume IX, Part 50 (1882), p. 103.

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. xii, 337-340, 347.

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(updated 1 November 2012, 3 February 2024)