Echinobasis halata (Meyrick, 1913)
 (previously known as Ocystola halata)
WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Echinobasis halata
(Photo: courtesy of Helen Cross, Stromlo, Australian Capital Territory)

These adult moths have forewings which are yellow, each with dark brown bands at the base, across the middle, and along the margin. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms.

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

The hindwings are pale brown. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

The species has been found in:

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

    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. 16, 199, 207-209.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Exotic Microlepidoptera,
    Volume 1, Part 4 (1913), p. 117.

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    (written 20 January 2022)