| (previously known as Coesyra ocellaris) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
Photo: courtesy of Buck Richardson, from
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art
The adult moth of this species has yellow forewings each with a big brown circle on the margin, and a brown thorax. The hindwings are silvery grey. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.
The species has been found in :
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. 94, 101-104.
Edward Meyrick,
Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidotera XI Oecophoridae (continued),
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume IX (1884), p. 773.
Buck Richardson,
Tropical Queensland Wildlife from Dusk to Dawn Science and Art,
LeapFrogOz, Kuranda, 2015, p. 182.
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(updated 1 November 2012)