Euphiltra epilecta Turner, 1917 WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

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

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

This adult moth of this species has a white head, black thorax, and white forewings which are each crossed by two irregular and iterrupted black bands. The hindwings are grey. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

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

The species has been found in eastern Australia, including:

Queensland.

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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. 152-153.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera.,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 41 (1917), p. 107.

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(written 2 October 2018)