drawing by Edward Newman and G.H. Ford, listed as Oecophora marionella,
Characters of a few Australian Lepidoptera, Collected by Mr. Thomas R. Oxley,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
New Series, Volume 3 (1856), Plate XVIII, fig. 7,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.
The adult moth has white forewings with an open lattice
of dark brown lines.
The thorax is dark brown.
The hindwings are yellow with a brown border.
The moth has long labial palps.
The moth has a wingspan of about 2 cms.
(Specimen: courtesy of
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)
The species is found across most of the southern
half of Australia, including
Queensland,
New South Wales,
Australian Capital Territory,
Victoria,
Tasmania,
South Australia, and
Western Australia.
Further reading :
Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia,
Melbourne University Press, 1990, pl. 4.15, p. 223.
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. 108-112, 120.
Edward Newman,
Characters of a few Australian Lepidoptera, Collected by Mr. Thomas R. Oxley,,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
New Series, Volume 3 (1856), p. 294, and also
Plate 18, fig. 7.
(updated 1 November 2012, 2 March 2015, 24 August 2019, 6 November 2020)
