Atelosticha phaedrella Meyrick, 1883
WINGIA GROUP,   OECOPHORINAE,   OECOPHORIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans,
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley


(Photo: courtesy of Dion Maple, Old Erowal Bay, New South Wales)

The adult moth has yellow forewings, each with two dark spots. The hindwings are off-white shading to brown at the margins. The head is white, and the thorax and abdomen are pale brown. The moth has a wingspan of about 1.3 cms.


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

The species is found in Australia in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    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. 305-309.

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera XII Oecophoridae,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Series 1, Volume 7 (1883), p. 491, No. 53.


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    (written 9 April 2019, updated 31 January 203)