Zacorus carus Butler, 1882
WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
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Stella Crossley

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

The adult moth of this species has white forewings. The hindwings are pale brown darkening at the wing-tips. The antennae, head, thorax, and legs are white. The labial palps are dark brown with short white hairs. The abdomen is dark grey fading to white toward the tip, with a white tuft on the tip. The legs have long white hairs. The moth has a wingspan of about 3 cms.

Zacorus carus
(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:

  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales,
  • Australian Capital Territory,
  • Victoria, and
  • Tasmania.

    This species is superficially similar to Thema holoxesta, but Zacorus carus has only short hairs on dark labial palps, but does have white hairy legs.


    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, 14 October 2024)