(previously known as Compsotropha pentascia) WINGIA GROUP, OECOPHORINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of
Aila Keto,
Springbrook, Queensland)
This moth has yellow forewings, each with up to six diagonal brown stripes across the wing. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown on the veins and at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species has been found in :
Further reading :
A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Lepidoptera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 41 (1917), p. 106.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 20 October 2019)