Garrha paraderces (Meyrick, 1889)
 (previously known as Coesyra paraderces)
WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Garrha paraderces
(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Tidbinbilla, Australian Capital Territory)

Pale yellow forewings each crossed by two ragged dark brown bands which meet on the hind-margin. Pale yellow head and dark brown thorax. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in eastern Australia, including:

  • New South Wales, and
  • Australian Capital Territory,.

    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, p. 301.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XV. Oecophoridae.,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    New Series 2, Volume 3, Part 4 (1889), p. 1659, No. 713 (342a).

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    (written 11 May 2021)